BY KAREN BOSSICK

Grandmother Flordemayo will return to Ketchum to bless local seeds when the Wood River Seed Library holds its fifth annual Seed Gathering, Cleaning and Packaging Party.

The event will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, at Ketchum’s Community Library.

Grandmother Flordemayo founded the Seed Temple at The Path in Estancia, N.M, to care take heirloom seeds. And she will deliver a message from the seeds on Tuesday.

“Our local seed library is growing and it would not possible without the amazing gardeners who generously share with the community their surplus seeds,” said Library Founder John Caccia.  

Tuesday’s event will be followed by a free screening of the documentary movie “For the Next 7 Generations” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at the library. The 88-minute film features Grandmother Flordemayor and other members of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers movement sharing their visions of healing for Mother Earth.

The Grandmothers represent a global alliance of prayer, education and healing for Mother Earth, her children and the next seven generations to come.

The film features footage of the grandmothers in places like the Amazon rainforest, the mountains of Mexico and North America and at a meeting with the Dalai Lama in India. It won Best Documentary Best Female Film, Best Green Film and Best Indigenous Film at such film festivals as the Big Island Indigenous Film Festival, Red National Film Festival in Los Angeles and Heal One World Awareness Festival

Born in the highlands of Nicaragua under the sign for the seed in Mayan astrology, Flordemayo calls herself a curandera espiritu, or a healer of divine spirit. She professes to be a seer who has the ability to see other realms of color, light and sound, including imbalances on the physical emotional and spiritual realms with a person’s energy.

She will offer personal consultations while here for those who email her daughter Heather at hhalldudney@gmail.com.