To begin at the beginning: this is a wiki connected to The Seedling Project—a multimedia project about sustainable agriculture in Peru. In ancient times the Incas fed an empire with marginal land utilizing sustainable farming techniques—even managing to store 3-5 years worth of extra food in case drought, hail or frost ruined a year's crops. Today, The Seedling Project is working to record current farming methods as passed down through generations and as examined by the team of archaeologists, agronomists and biologists of The Cusichaca Trust, a British-run NGO. These methods must be documented before changing agricultural agendas that promote the use of agro-chemicals, rural to urban migration, political unrest, and increased development irretrievably alter them and the knowledge is lost to us and future generations of sustainable farmers.

The Seedling Project is also working to connect rural Peruvians with the developed world, and viceversa. While filmmakers Andrea Dunlap and Hannah Heinrich document mountain agricultural techniques they are also teaching Peruvians how to document themselves on film, on the web, and with a magazine produced locally.

This wiki will serve as a notebook as we work to improve our project and continue researching food and food issues herein. Since it's a wiki please contribute, even if it's just a comment.

Next on the wiki. Tips from Peru.

here is the haiku.

More at seedling project and on Flickr