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Featured Event: Ancestral Seed Box
Red Rice Books and Nebedaye Farms have come together to bring you a three-part cultural experience rooted in food, memory, and ancestral wisdom. Through this immersive journey, we honor the heritage of African diasporic foodways by cultivating knowledge, seeds, and community.
The African Botanical Garden
Alkebu-lan Botanical Gardens is a project of Nebedaye Farms which seeks to reintroduce medicinal and ancestral crops to the community through educational programming, community planting events, outdoor dinners featuring local Black chefs, utilizing the crops harvested.
All proceeds of this initiative will go to this project. For more information, please visit The Alkebu-lan Botanical Gardens on Facebook.
The Reading List
Here’s a curated Ancestral Seed Box Reading List featuring 30+ titles by authors from the African Diaspora, across genres and age groups to edify yourself before, during, and after the experience. These books center foodways, land, ancestral knowledge, cultural memory, farming, sustainability, and liberation—aligned with the values of the African Botanical Garden.
Ancestral Seed Box
Seeds hold more than sustenance—they hold stories, migrations, resistance, and reclamation. From okra to black-eyed peas, African ancestral seeds represent traditions that nourished generations through forced displacement and deep-rooted survival. These seeds are powerful vessels of continuity. By growing them, we are growing memory, legacy, and liberation.
What’s in the Ancestral Seed Box?
Each box includes:
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4-5 curated African heritage seed packets
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A guide leading to a mini zine with
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planting instructions, stories, and recipes
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a Red Rice Books reading guide to food and culture
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A limited-edition seed box designed by a local artist
Nebedaye Farms
Nebedaye Farms is a community-centered farm working to restore land-based knowledge systems. Committed to growing African heritage crops and teaching sustainable farming methods, Nebedaye Farms is a steward of ancestral agricultural traditions. Led by Bernard Singleton in Indian Trail, NC.
Regular price
$45.00
Coming Soon: The Ancestral Seed Guide
Regular price
$15.00