The Traditions in Agriculture series seeks to engage the community in expanding our understanding of equitable farming, food, and medicinal practices. Learn how we can create healthier communities and ecosystems for food justice.

In this talk we will explore relationships and threads of resiliency in our current challenging ecological climate. These relatives will transmit about lived experience, shared strength and a vision for hope. They will illuminate their process and method for respecting and upholding the bounty we have been given by our ancestors, setting the proverbial table for all versus the few.

Tyson Sampson is a two-hearted and two-spirited individual who descended from the local
indigenous matriarchy called the ᎠᏂᎩᎶᎯ (A-ni-gi-lo-hi). Their home is referred to as The
Beautiful Painted Earth. This family is based here in their aboriginal territory most commonly
known as the Great Smoky Mountains.

Amy Walker is a member of the Deer Clan, is a great-grandmother, and is 78 years old. Her
parents, one Cherokee and one South Dakota Sioux, were both herbalists. She grew up eating
out of the Appalachian forests; a wildcrafter and a farmer, she focuses her farming on traditional
Cherokee food preferences, mostly growing traditional medicine, corn, beans, and squash. She
is a retired social worker, and an indigenous traditionalist. Amy is a pipe carrier and a
Sundancer in South Dakota.

This program is free. Registration is not required.