User:Eloise Zomia
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About Me
I’m Éloïse, an ethnobotanist and founder of the Zomia Collective. My work focuses on the preservation, documentation, and cultivation of landrace cannabis across Asia. I’ve spent years traveling through the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and beyond, conducting fieldwork with farmers and documenting regional varieties. My approach combines scientific research with cultural and ethnographic insight, aiming to sustain living agricultural traditions rather than reduce them to genetic archives.
Interests
I’m Éloïse, an ethnobotanist and founder of the Zomia Collective. My work focuses on the preservation, documentation, and cultivation of landrace cannabis across Asia. I’ve spent years traveling through the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and beyond, conducting fieldwork with farmers and documenting regional varieties. My approach combines scientific research with cultural and ethnographic insight, aiming to sustain living agricultural traditions rather than reduce them to genetic archives.
Contributions
My interests gravitate toward the highland and tropical regions where cannabis has been grown for centuries: the Himalayan foothills, Northeast India, Laos, and Southern Thailand. I’m especially drawn to charas-producing cultivars, Thai heirlooms like Meun Sri, and the tall equatorial sativas that carry African and Asian lineages. Much of my growing experience has been in rough, marginal conditions, where plants are pushed to reveal resilience traits. This has shaped my focus on open pollination, genetic breadth and conservation-oriented selection. Beyond the plants themselves, I’m committed to understanding the cultural histories and farmer knowledge systems that shape these landraces, from terroir and chemotype expression to the ritual and economic worlds that sustain them.
Contact
Website: Zomia Collective Website
Patreon: Zomia Patreon
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