Gabriel Howearth
Botanist, Landscape architect, Seedsman
Gabriel's Convergence Blog
Founder of Buena Fortuna Botanical Garden, in Baja Mexico (3700 plant species of the tropical and dry tropical regions of the world), he is the president of Siempre Semillas AC, a Mexican NGO whose main focus is to preserve seed diversity by teaching and planting, Gabriel with his personal seed bank collection of a living geneology of plants containing many rare, endangered and exotic species of forgotten and little known food sources of great nutritional, cultural and genetic value he was an original Co-founder of Seeds of Change, the foremost GMO free organic seed company in the U.S. and half of the world.
Currently he is working with several ecological organizations in
central and South America as well as he is available to travel
worldwide to teach about Organic seeds and ways to preserve our genetic
seed purity locally in order to contribute to the global change in
positive ways.
As part of the many consultations he has done recently includes:
Professional Consultation for “Dreaming New Mexico” towards a food
& energy self-sustainable State by the year 2020; an ambitious and
well supported project, initiative of Bioneers with the participation
of a number of NGO’s, Farmers, Indigenous Groups, Schools as well as
Governmental support.
Professional consultation in Southern Oregon helping organize local
seedsman and farmers work towards helping its people in the bioregion
become seed and food self-sufficient – beyond sustainable.
In the early stages of developing a Polycultural- Permacultural
landscape Design for state of the art Ola Brisa Eco Community in Todos
Santos, on the Pacific Coast side of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Some of his previous work include research work with Sonic Bloom sound
frequencies and music and pyramid enhancement for seeds and plants with
documented success written in very popular books: “Secrets of the soil”
and “The secret life of Plants” by two famous authors/researchers Peter
Tompkins and Christopher Byrd. The results of this research show how
certain frequencies and music really works to greatly enhance plant
grow production, yield, nutrition, flavor, quality and germination
power of seeds especially enhanced by the combination of the use of
Mayan pyramid seed enhancers.
He has traveled around the world and worked with many indigenous people
to develop and increase diversity in organic farming and gardening. He
has 30 years experience teaching and practicing permaculture, seed
saving, biodynamic and organic agriculture.
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