Geographer. Seedkeeper. Chaotic gardener.
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Christian Brooks Keeve, Floridian and aspiring cryptid, does a lot of things with seeds and with the people who care about them. They completed their BA in Environmental Sciences & African-American Studies at Northwestern and their MS in Geography at the University of Wisconsin. Their research has recently focused on in situ agrobiodiversity conservation through seedkeeping and historic plant collections, and has turned towards living and lively archives as well as the local and regional organizing around cultural seed work, participatory plant breeding and seed grower networks. Further interests ooze into Black Geographies, Queer Ecologies, Political Ecology, Vegetal Geographies, Food Studies, other things probably. As well as an academic, they're an educator, workshop facilitator, and seed grower/organizer with Truelove Seeds, the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, Experimental Farm Network, the Utopian Seed Project, the Heirloom Collard Project, and Nonbinary Botany. But really they just like reading comics, tending to plants, and growing food. Photography by Emmanuel Fields |
