Geographer. Seedkeeper. Chaotic gardener.
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Chris 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 & Black Studies at Northwestern, their MS in Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and are currently finishing their PhD in Geography at the University of Kentucky. Their research focuses on in situ agrobiodiversity conservation through seedkeeping and community plant breeding, and has turned towards living and lively archives as well as the local and regional organizing around cultural seed work and seed grower communities. Further interests ooze into Black Geographies, Queer Ecologies, Political Ecology, Digital Geographies, Food Studies, other things probably. As well as an academic, they're an educator, workshop facilitator, and seed grower/organizer with Nonbinary Botany, Truelove Seeds, the Ira Wallace Seed School, the Utopian Seed Project, the Heirloom Collard Project, and Kindred Seeds. But really they just like reading comics, tending to plants, and growing food. Photography by Emmanuel Fields |
