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Beth Bridgeman is an associate professor of Cooperative Education. She teaches a series of Reskilling and Resilience courses, exploring seed-resilience, plant medicine, regenerative agriculture and commensality. Her pedagogy includes peer-to-peer teaching within a democratic educational framework. Beth directs cooperative education partnerships in sustainability, environmental science, biomedical science, and alternative education. She is co-op liaison to the science division and to the Japanese language and culture program. A recipient of a faculty excellence award from the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, she is also an Oral History in the Liberal Arts Faculty Fellow, receiving funding for her project “Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology” with support from the Mellon Foundation. Her concurrent research, “Pedagogies of Nature: Shinto, Spiritual Ecology, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge” recently received National Endowment for the Arts funding through the Great Lakes College Association.

Ira Wallace Interview

11 May 2021

Faculty Research Archives, Faculty Research Interviews, OHLA Projects, Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed

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Bill McDorman Interview

11 May 2021

Faculty Research Archives, Faculty Research Interviews, OHLA Projects, Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed

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Pam Thullen Interview

11 May 2021

Faculty Research Archives, Faculty Research Interviews, OHLA Projects, Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed

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Beth Bridgeman Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed

24 November 2019

Faculty Research Archives, Faculty Research Landing Pages, Faculty Spotlight, OHLA Projects, Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed

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Integrative Learning on the Antioch Farm: Global Seminar in Food, Farming and Resilience

18 April 2018

The Work We Do

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Faculty Spotlight: Beth Bridgeman

29 September 2017

Faculty Spotlight

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Student Spotlight: Valerie Benedict ’18

19 May 2017

Chicago, Student Spotlight

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Student Spotlight: Julia Bates ’17 and Meridian Howes ’17

23 February 2017

The Work We Do

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bbridgeman@antiochcollege.edu
937-768-7240

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

Beth develops partnerships and field-based agro-ecology, Japanese cultural immersion and experiential education opportunities for Antioch students. Recent community-engaged opportunities have included a mud oven design-build, seed school, and fermentation workshops. She has led student trips to Seed-Saver Exchange and The Land Institute. In 2017, she designed a four-college residency with the Rich Earth Institute, during which students built a prototype urine-diverting compost toilet and learned about human nutrient recapture and in 2016 offered Ohayo-Ohio: an eight day Japanese symposium of 30 workshops, presentations, and films. She maintains relationships with alumni and partners in New England, California, Japan and Colorado. Current interests include basket-making, indigo shibori, soap-making, biodynamic agriculture and "mending as resistance".

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Presentations

Recent Presentations

Kentucky Organic Association conference, virtual, January 26-30, 2021. Seed Sovereignty: How to Save Seed and Why You Should.

Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions. September 25-27,2020. Seed School.

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education conference, Spokane, Washington, October 27-30, 2019. Food, Forage, Farm, Feast: Teaching Reskilling, Sustainability and Commensality at Antioch College.

Society of Ethnobiology conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 4, 2019.

The Antioch College Apothecary: Place-Based Experiential Learning.

Environmental Education Council of Ohio conference, Perrysville, OH. April 5, 2019. The Outdoor Apothecary: Teas and Tinctures, Syrups and Salves.

Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association conference, Dayton, Ohio, February 16, 2019.

How to Save Seed and Why You Should: Seed Law.

The Ohio State University, February 2, 2019. College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, Seedsaving and Community Resilience.

School of the Alternative Residency, Black Mountain, North Carolina. May 24-29, 2019. Decolonizing Herbalism.

University of Dayton Lifelong Learning Institute, Oct 2, 2019. Seed Sovereignty.

Arthur Morgan Institute for Community Solutions Pathways to Regeneration: Soil, Food and Plant Medicine conference, Nov 1, 2019. Decolonizing Herbalism.

Ohio State University Extension, Springfield, Ohio, Sept 25, 2019. Advanced Seed-saving.

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Ira Wallace Interview

May 11, 2021

</p> </div> </div> <div class="eltdf-container"> <div class="eltdf-container-inner"> <br>  <h2> <a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/bill-mcdorman-interview/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Bill McDorman Interview"> Bill McDorman Interview</a></h2> <strong>May 11, 2021<br> </strong> <p><iframe src="https://ohla.info/ohms-viewer/viewer.php?cachefile=Antioch_College_CSS02.xml&brand=Antioch" style="width:100%; height:1200px !important;"></p> </div> </div> <div class="eltdf-container"> <div class="eltdf-container-inner"> <br>  <h2> <a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/pam-thullen-interview/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Pam Thullen Interview"> Pam Thullen Interview</a></h2> <strong>May 11, 2021<br> </strong> <p><iframe src="https://ohla.info/ohms-viewer/viewer.php?cachefile=Antioch_College_CSS03.xml&brand=Antioch" style="width:100%; height:1200px !important;"></p> </div> </div> <div class="eltdf-container"> <div class="eltdf-container-inner"> <br>  <h2> <a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/re-establishing-a-seed-commons-through-oral-history-methodology-capturing-the-story-of-seed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Beth Bridgeman Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed"> Beth Bridgeman Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed</a></h2> <strong>Nov 24, 2019<br> </strong> <p><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-11510 alignright" src="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/house-300x217.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="205" srcset="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/house-300x217.jpg 300w, https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/house.jpg 640w" sizes="(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px" />“Re-establishing a Seed Commons through Oral History Methodology: Capturing the Story of Seed ” is a research project that provides a venue for preserving knowledge of the nearly lost art of saving seed while grounding students in an epistemology of hope as they document change-makers who are charting a course forward into the great uncertainty of the Anthropocene. It highlights storytelling and mindful listening as a means of transferring knowledge from one generation to the next, and engages students in a high-impact pedagogy within a community of practice.</p> <p>In fall of 2019, Beth Bridgeman, assistant professor of cooperative education, offered “Seed Sovereignty and Citizen Action”, an advanced level eleven-week course into which this project was incorporated.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-11509 alignleft" src="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uli-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="267" srcset="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uli-225x300.jpg 225w, https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/uli.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px" />When we save seed, we are saving the important germplasm, or genetic material, within that seed. But it is critical also, to save the story of that seed. Who are those working at the forefront of seed sovereignty today? How are they saving seed, and why? What are their stories? Why do they save this particular seed? Where did it come from? Was it passed down through their family? Which ancestor passed it down? What mattered to those ancestors? What did they hope for? For how many generations has it been saved? How far back can the seed be traced? What are the memories associated with the saving of this seed?</p> <p><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-11505 alignright" src="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sarah-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sarah-225x300.jpg 225w, https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/sarah.jpg 480w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></p> <p>Students identified, interviewed and archived the stories of seed-savers and those who are working to re-establish a new seed commons, thereby utilizing oral history and experiential methodology in their own learning, and making available to the public these impactful strategies of seed mentors and seed elders who are “fighting the good fight”.</p> <p>Interviewees were identified through partnerships with the <a href="https://www.oeffa.org/">Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association</a>, <a href="https://www.rockymountainseeds.org/">Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance</a>, and <a href="https://www.seedsavers.org/">Seed Savers Exchange. </a></p> <p>“[But] someone needs to keep up an old method if it’s not to be lost; some young person needs to get interested and begin the life’s work of mastering the craft; be it botanical art or baking salt-raising bread or making saddles. Like lifeforms themselves, human crafts must be continually renewed, regrown inside a living person, or they become obsolete, extinct, within a generation”.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1">[i]</a></p> <p><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1">[i]</a> Howsare, Erika. “The Magnificence of Seeing.” <em>Taproot</em>, 14 Nov. 2017.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Listen to the Student lead Interviews:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/bill-mcdorman-interview/">Bill McDormen</a></strong></p> <p><a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/ira-wallace-interview/"><strong>Ira Wallace</strong></a></p> <p><a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/pam-thullen-interview/"><strong>Pam Thullen</strong></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="eltdf-container"> <div class="eltdf-container-inner"> <br>  <h2> <a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/integrative-learning-on-the-antioch-farm-global-seminar-in-food-farming-and-resilience/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Integrative Learning on the Antioch Farm: Global Seminar in Food, Farming and Resilience"> Integrative Learning on the Antioch Farm: Global Seminar in Food, Farming and Resilience</a></h2> <strong>Apr 18, 2018<br> </strong> <p>Students in Beth Bridgeman’s Global Seminar spent spring of 2017 learning about biochar, wildcrafting, beekeeping, goatmilking, regenerative agriculture, horsedrawn plowing, culture and the power of food memories, culminating in an all day cooking session and feast.</p> <style type="text/css"> #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ </style> <div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-9942 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'> <dt class='gallery-icon landscape'> <a 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She is an invited speaker at the Ohio School Garden conference on <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_503180915"><span class="aQJ">October 13</span></span> and a panelist on “Community Efforts and Environmentalism” at the Chatham College Food and Climate Change conference <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_503180916"><span class="aQJ">October 14</span></span>. On <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_503180917"><span class="aQJ">October 21</span></span>, she is co-presenting at the InFACT Seed to Sustainability Workshop at Antioch College with Dr David Francis, geneticist and tomato plant breeder from the Ohio Agriculture and Research Development Center. Second in a series of four statewide workshops, the InFACT series provides professional training for seedsavers, grower and plant breeders. Bridgeman and Francis will speak on seed policy law for small-scale commercial seed production.</p> </div> </div> <div class="eltdf-container"> <div class="eltdf-container-inner"> <br>  <h2> <a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/student-spotlight-valerie-benedict-18/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Student Spotlight: Valerie Benedict ’18"> Student Spotlight: Valerie Benedict ’18</a></h2> <strong>May 19, 2017<br> </strong> <div>Valerie Benedict, Class of 2018, completed her most recent co-op at NorthShore University HealthSystems, in Evanston, IL last Fall. She worked in a hospital where she was stationed in the cardiology department. During her time at NorthShore, Valerie says she primarily worked in data entry, and she also shadowed surgeons in various surgeries, which she says was her favorite part of the co-op.</div> <div></div> <div>She also had the opportunity to participate in the development of a research project on childhood consumption of high-sugar drinks, and its effects on children’s health at large. This manifested in educational programs in Evanston and Chicago area schools, and her team visited students to present “sugar shows,” as Valerie called them. In these presentations, the researchers would demonstrate the sugar content of various drinks to students. The goal was to empower students to reduce their consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, which contribute to various health problems such as obesity and cardiac disease. Ultimately, over the year during which the presentations and studies were conducted, Valerie’s team found positive effects in the schools they visited, although she says that schools in lower socioeconomic districts were less likely to have the positive results seen in the high-income area schools. The research team also compiled a paper on the findings of the study.</div> <div></div> <div>Since Valerie’s co-op in the Fall of 2016, the article has gone through an extensive process of peer-review. Now, the article has been approved for publication in a formal academic journal later this year, and Valerie is a credited co-author! Congratulations Valerie, on this outstanding accomplishment!</div> <div></div> <div>Text quoted from an interview with Valerie Benedict ’18 on May 18, 2017.</div> </div> </div> <div class="eltdf-container"> <div class="eltdf-container-inner"> <br>  <h2> <a href="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/student-spotlight-julia-bates-17-and-meridian-howes-17/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Student Spotlight: Julia Bates ’17 and Meridian Howes ’17"> Student Spotlight: Julia Bates ’17 and Meridian Howes ’17</a></h2> <strong>Feb 23, 2017<br> </strong> <div>Having completed the rigorous, three-year Japanese language track, Julia Bates ’17 and Meridian Howes ’17 were awarded the Lloyd Family Fellowship and traveled to Osaka, Japan. While in <img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-7587 alignright" src="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/meridian_suisen-fukushukai-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/meridian_suisen-fukushukai-300x225.jpg 300w, https://co-op.antiochcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/meridian_suisen-fukushukai.jpg 320w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />Osaka, Julia and Meridian worked at Suisen Fukushukai, a social services organization providing a variety of services and care for both children, adults, and seniors.</div> <div></div> <div><span class="il">Co</span>–<span class="il">op</span> faculty and advisor, Beth Bridgeman worked alongside former Antioch College Japanese teaching assistant, Haruna Tomura, to establish this partnership. Julia and Meridian were the first Antioch College students to work at Suisen Fukushukai. The organization was thrilled with the work that Julia and Meridian contributed in their time there and look forward to continuing the partnership and hosting many more Antioch College students. Much of their work revolved around childcare, assisting adults with intellectual disabilities, providing services to senior citizens.</div> <div></div> <div> <div>Check out a post featured on the Suisen Fukushikai webpage about Julia and Meridian’s time in Japan! For the Japanese version, click <a href="https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001yUoGJAihuIkgwcAM8ECTAFQ6FXJPPsRhU0_Imp1IxsDlwsc8eZda0avNhkiOzogTOT9DrcQ7YUfW3vQw2wMMaqXJDiClMAJHAzWKBXIYjhk5xTCTEVPCFLPsEzZ3RluMf604jKOC2f6Sssgh4MKmyZf1XNGukPDtn6Bfqe9K1MjTzxs7JrQVo-_dD-ql6njYt6rFAlzDz2Y=&c=X9Q8NDHusEWWDaqCe69pH6yEoPaEetzAyJasDOwLfa-Ha9Fi416t-w==&ch=wdKFjCfQJqlZkOkxyoPPWHj1FrwPbrx9TikGO0zSXfvHojnl2vkgEQ==" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001yUoGJAihuIkgwcAM8ECTAFQ6FXJPPsRhU0_Imp1IxsDlwsc8eZda0avNhkiOzogTOT9DrcQ7YUfW3vQw2wMMaqXJDiClMAJHAzWKBXIYjhk5xTCTEVPCFLPsEzZ3RluMf604jKOC2f6Sssgh4MKmyZf1XNGukPDtn6Bfqe9K1MjTzxs7JrQVo-_dD-ql6njYt6rFAlzDz2Y%3D%26c%3DX9Q8NDHusEWWDaqCe69pH6yEoPaEetzAyJasDOwLfa-Ha9Fi416t-w%3D%3D%26ch%3DwdKFjCfQJqlZkOkxyoPPWHj1FrwPbrx9TikGO0zSXfvHojnl2vkgEQ%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1486743370441000&usg=AFQjCNH4Be9-OOVNuluxTjtpQ5v82Jluyg">here</a>. 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The grant is offered to support institutions “that execute proposals designed to maintain and advance the infrastructural scale of Japanese Studies at their institution.”</div> <div></div> <div>Building on the success of the Antioch College Ohayo-Ohio Japanese Symposium in 2016, Toyoko Miwa Osborne, instructor of Japanese, Beth Bridgeman, Instructor of Cooperative Education, and Louise Smith, Associate Professor of Performance, Antioch College will offer <b><i>Ohayo-Ohio II: </i></b><b><i>New Opportunities for Cultural Engagement, Building Foundation, “HIYAKU”</i></b>. It will include Japanese cultural workshops and lectures for our students, faculty, and the community and highlight the work of Antioch College alumni working in the fields of kyogen, butoh, washi and sado (chado).</div> <div></div> <div>Miwa-Osborne will offer an “Orizuru” symposium, bringing the film’s director and a panel of collaborators to discuss the making of this film, which tells the story behind Sadako and the Paper Cranes, and the bombing of Hiroshima. Smith will bring visiting artists and alumni Abel Coehlo, Butoh performer, and Dr. Julie Iezzi, theatre professor and kyogen performer, to offer a variety of workshops and performances. Bridgeman will bring several additional Antioch alumni and artists from Japan and the U.S. whose careers in Japan or Japanese culture were informed by the experiential education they received at Antioch College. Kyoto-based Richard Milgrim, a tea ceramicist and tea master, will perform a tea ceremony and lead a discussion and demonstration of his tea ceramics process. Chiba, Japan-based Everett Brown, a photojournalist, organic farmer and inn-keeper, will offer a lecture from his upcoming book on the “37,000 Year History of How the Japanese Do Things Special.” and will lead a session on the Farm to Table movement in Japan. He will exhibit his work in collaboration with Milgrim and University of Iowa-based alumnus and washi expert Timothy Barrett. 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