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, one of the founders 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, Southern Thai landraces like Meun Sri, Tha Sala and in general tall equatorial sativa-like plants that carry African and Asian lineages.
My focus is on fieldwork, collecting landrace cannabis genetics and conservation.
Beyond the plants themselves, I’m committed to understanding the cultural histories and farmer knowledge systems that shape these landraces, especially the great landrace cannabis terroirs and the cultural and economic forces that sustain them.
Contact
Website: Zomia Collective Website
Patreon: Zomia Patreon
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