Bioneers Food & Farming Campaign

Research for this week's lecture planted me onto a website promoting a group of social and scientific innovators from New Mexico USA called the Bioneers. They state that they are a group dedicated to understanding how nature operates, and to mimic "nature's operating instructions" to serve human ends without harming the web of life. Nature's principles—kinship, cooperation, diversity, symbiosis and cycles of continuous creation absent of waste—can also serve as metaphoric guideposts for organising an equitable, compassionate and democratic society.
This organisation hosts an annual Food and Farming Conference with speakers from food production companies that have achieved sustainable practices and community oriented business practices. They also have a Seed Exchange event where open-pollinated seeds can be freely exchanges in a hope to develop a more robust and diverse local ecosystem. It is the basis of this communal and democratic exchange that I draw a link to the practice of Lucas and Diego, I also believe that if the exchange had perhaps been presented by an artist would qualify as a Relational work.