🌱 Our Mission

Our mission in Bozcaada, through the collaboration of Celo Türkiye and Zero Movement, is to cultivate a living model of regenerative culture — where ecological restoration, community imagination, and biocultural continuity converge to seed a more resilient, place-based future.

This gathering marked our first physical introduction as regenerators on the island, grounding our intentions not only in words, but in earth, seed, and shared action.

🌀 1. Spiral Garden Creation: Healing in the Round

Two spiral-shaped public gardens were lovingly planted in a communal space on Bozcaada — their design echoing sacred geometry and the intelligent patterns of nature. These gardens became both living sculptures and open invitations for ongoing community engagement.

Plants Included:

1. Lavandula angustifolia – Lavender
2. Mentha piperita – Peppermint
3. Rosmarinus officinalis – Rosemary
4. Origanum majorana – Mercanköşk (Marjoram)
5. Cosmos bipinnatus – Cosmos Flower
6. Calendula officinalis – Gündüz Sefası (Pot Marigold)
7. Salvia officinalis – Adaçayı (Sage)
8. Melissa officinalis – Melissa (Lemon Balm)

🌀 These gardens now pulse with pollinators, scent, color, and care — forming a regenerative landmark that invites both ecological flourishing and human reflection.

🌾 2. Seed Statue Workshop: Sculpting Living Stories

Children, guided by Derin Uludağ – Zero Movement, shaped seed statues — a creative evolution of the traditional seed ball. Clay and compost became vessels for potential, as each child embedded seeds with care and intention. These were gently planted into the spiral gardens, where they now return to earth as nourishment.

💬 “The soil remembers what we shape with love,” one child whispered.

🌱 TOHUMBA: The Traveling Seed Archive

Unveiled as part of this regenerative moment, TOHUMBA is a mobile seed suitcase — a tool for modern nomadic planters. Designed to carry, collect, and share seeds, TOHUMBA acts as both a physical archive and a poetic symbol of continuity. In Bozcaada, it offered a bridge between island flora and planetary kinship — a living archive of biodiversity, memory, and care.

🔄 3. Panel Talks: Conversations for Earth’s Future

As the sun mellowed and sea breezes softened the circle, we gathered for three fertile conversations that braided together ecology, economy, and community craft.

♻️ Recycling & Upcycling on the Island

This segment highlighted hands-on transformation: discarded plastics were shredded into fine particles, then repurposed using an extruder plastic machine to craft upcycled public space furniture; elements that now serve the island’s commons with new purpose.

Alongside the demonstration, we facilitated an open dialogue around the creation of a community composting and upcycling facility; a regenerative space where organic waste becomes nourishment and material flow is redesigned in harmony with nature.

🌾 Heirloom & Hemp Seeds + Island Flora Archive

With deep reverence, Derin Uludağ (Zero Movement) and Sohto (Earthist) presented a seed archive woven from Bozcaada’s wild and cultivated landscapes — including heirloom seed varieties, hemp, and sacred flora collected from the island’s ecosystem.

Sohto (Earthist Bloom) shared a powerful insight: “The best way to preserve seeds is to plant them — and to inspire others to do the same.”

He emphasized the importance of transforming seeds into value-added daily items that can replace degenerative, synthetic alternatives — rooting biocultural continuity in everyday life.

🌍 Regenerative Finance: Soil for the Future

This final thread invited participants into an emergent economic imagination. We explored financial systems not as extractive machines, but as ecosystems — capable of reciprocity, restoration, and trust.

Participants curious about regenerative finance were introduced to three key pillars:

1. Celo: A mobile-first, carbon-negative blockchain ecosystem designed to support regenerative finance, universal access, and real-world impact through decentralized tools and stable digital currencies.
2. Regen Network: A blockchain protocol focused on ecological data and carbon credits, enabling farmers, land stewards, and communities to earn value through verified ecological regeneration.
3. Bloom Network: A global network of local hubs creating peer-to-peer support systems and regenerative cultures through Web3 infrastructure, shared media, and on-the-ground action.

Together, these tools offer pathways for redirecting capital flows toward healing, and building local economies rooted in ecological truth and community wealth.

🌻 Outcomes & Ripples

1. The spiral gardens now serve as living commons — vibrant with biodiversity, aromatic medicinal plants, and the first rituals of community-led stewardship on the island.
2. Children embodied ecology by shaping soil and story with their hands — not as passive learners, but as young regenerators.
3. TOHUMBA launched a new chapter as a mobile archive of biocultural regeneration, beginning its island journey from Bozcaada and inviting future seed carriers into its unfolding story.
4. Conversations from the panel sowed living connections — between people and place, seed and practice, economy and ecology — affirming the path of regeneration as a communal artform.