KCET has put out a great video about eating native foods.
This is the PBS channel associated with Los Angeles. I met the film crew for this TV series. They interviewed me about plants and plant science. But to be honest, I have no idea if they ended up using my clips in their film series. Either way, these are worth watching. Very cool!
California — a biodiversity hotspot — provides an abundance of plants for both food and medicine. To Native peoples across the state, gathering locations were like supermarkets today. They provided all the resources necessary to survive. These native plants are relevant today as they reinforce cultural continuity for California’s Native peoples and provide healthy, drought-tolerant alternatives to the processed foods typically found in Western diets.
Chia Cafe is featured in this video. I am familiar with this group and they do a great job teaching others how continue the tradition of an indigenous diet in this modern world
In this video, we visit members of the Chia Cafe Collective, a group working in Southern California to revive Native food practices and raise awareness about the precarity of these important cultural resources.
