Photos


The majority of my work is fieldwork-based, and I've been blessed in that this has introduced me to some incredible people and places. This page is an effort to share some of this visually.  If you want to use any photos, just ask me and I'd be happy to share a high-quality version. Otherwise, please refrain from using them without permission.

Potatoes

Selection of potatoes from Ayacucho, Peru
A soccer match in Peru's Potato Park(4000m)
A selection of potatoes in Ayacucho used for the brand, "Tiyapuy"
Potatoes? or Rocks?
Beso de la novia! (girlfriend's kiss)!
Part of the process of making chuño, a freeze-dried potato (that gains nutrition + longevity)
Early potato art! From "El Cultivo de la Papa en Peru," Jorge Christiansen. CIP. 1967.
"Air potatoes" (Dioscorea bulbifera) in Piura, Peru
Qhatun wakachi, a very special potato that some communities use in matrimonial ceremonies
International Day of the Potato (May 30th), Peru
Rozette, an "open source" potato available through Cultivariable that I grow in Duluth, MN
Potato flower at the USDA/ARS potato genebank Sturgeon Bay, WI.
Home-grown organic potatoes in the US. Most of our potatoes are white-fleshed, but you can still find colored varieties. The colors signify higher antioxidant levels.

Maize

Hombres de maiz weaving, Teotitlan, Oaxaca
maíz ajo (a sheathed corn that can't really be eaten by people)
Another variety of maíz ajo
Tortillas, no dyes (made from Mexican maize)
Teocintle, the oldest known ancestor of maize. About 8 to 10,000 years ago, humans in what is now Mexico began to transform this into what would thousands of years later become edible maize. Amazing.
Maíz verde Oaxaqueño
maíz palomero / popcorn!
Escudo nacional in tortilla form, as part of Mexico's National Day of Maize (September 23)
Interviewing Ana Lilia Rivera, President of the Mexican Senate (and leading advocate for the protection of native Mexican maize)
Annual celebration of maize + seed exchange/festival in Tlaxcala

International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples (INMIP) Conference 2024

Paru Paru
The first problem: the Peruvian gov doesn't respect ILO 169...
Group photo with participants from Peru, Bolivia, Kenya, China, and more!
Lares Region, Peru

Visit to Nairobi and Gilgil Town, Kenya

Seed Savers Kenya
chapati and beans...!
Meeting with representatives from Simlaw Seeds
questionable.
Wangari Maathai, an amazing Kenyan environmental and human rights activist, and Nobel Prize winner
Women's cooperative starting a seed bank outside of GilGil town
Hell's Gate Park

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