Join us as farmer and seed steward Kristyn Leach and writer Victor M. Valle present the complex histories, epigenetics, mythologies of the chile, and efforts to protect heirloom varietals of chiles which are close to being wiped out by corporations seeking more uniform and controllable qualities. Their presentations will be followed by a conversation moderated by Saehee Cho, during which they will discuss how the migration and adaptability of the chile pepper may offer us tools of resistance, illuminating stories of colonization, Indigenous poetics, histories of agriculture, borderlands ecology, and genetics.