This Spring, the OA will focus on food.

Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.

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Issue 112, Spring 2021

The Seeds We Keep

A film supplement to the Food Issue

Part narrative essay, part documentary, The Seeds We Keep lifts up a love song for the land, for generational wisdom and for the vital questions that come with making your place in it. In the film, cultural preservationist Gabrielle E. W. Carter unfolds a lush vision of what is and what could be in her meditation on Black land ownership and seed saving.  

Special thanks to The Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts for supporting the making of this film. 

For more from the Spring 2021 Food Issue, click here. 

Credits: 

Creator, Co-Director - Gabrielle E. W. Carter
Director, D. P., Editor - D. L. Anderson 
Producer - Shirlette Ammons 
Production Assistance - Monét Noelle Marshall 
Original Music - James Phillips 
Title Design - Shaun Sundholm
Executive Producer - Vittles Films