Seed Saving Workshop - 3.20.2011

Seed Saving Workshop Illustration Contest!

We are looking for black & white illustrations or photographs for use in flyers and other promotional materials for two March seed saving workshops presented by Sarah Kleeger and Andrew Still from The Seed Ambassadors & Adaptive Seeds. Subject matter should include seed sowing, seeds, seed germination, or be of a similar horticultural nature. Submissions are due no later than February 10th. The workshops are scheduled for Saturday, March 19th in White Salmon, WA (hosted by the Gorge Grown Food Network) and on Sunday, March 20th in Vancouver, WA (hosted by Neighbors Markets, Slow Food Southwest WA and Urban Abundance). All submissions will become property of Clark County Food & Farm and will NOT be used for any commercial purpose, other than this workshop series, without permission of the submitter. 

Clark County Food & Farm is offering FIVE FREE packets of seeds from the Adaptive Seeds 2011 Catalog to one lucky winner!


Please submit all entries via e-mail in .png, .jpeg or .tif format. Highest quality images are preferred. Enter as often as you like. The winner will be announced on February 11th.


More info on the workshops coming soon!

Upcoming Seed Saving Workshop From The Seed Ambassadors & Adaptive Seeds - 5.16.2010

SEED SAVING AND SEED STEWARDSHIP: The Path to Locally Adapted Seed and True
Food Freedom

*May 16* - Instructors: Andrew Still & Sarah Kieeger of the Seed Ambassadors
Project <http://www.seedambassadors.org>and Adaptive
Seeds<http://www.adaptiveseeds.com>

*Workshop focuses:*

- -Why Save Seed: A profound act of social and ecological empowerment.
- -History of an Ancient Tradition
- -Seed Sovereignty and Food Freedom in a changing world
- -Willamette Valley as one of the best seed saving regions in the world.
- -Open Pollinated, Heritage/Heirloom, Hybrid and GMO
- -Sources: the importance of choice and diversity
- -Strategies: planning your garden for seed saving
- -Isolation: Crossers and Selfers
- -Population: Inbreeding and Outbreeding
- -Selection: Simple plant breeding for locally adapted seed
- -Harvest, Cleaning and Storage
- -Examples seed stewardship
- -Re-localizing a seed stewardship community

For all of the who, where, when. and how much follow the link to Sunbow Farm.

http://www.sunbowfarm.org/workshops.php

The Seed Ambassadors Present - A Seed Saving Workshop - Eugene, OR - 8.16.2009

Here's a late breaking announcement about a seed saving workshop being presented by the AMAZING folks of the Seed Ambassador Project:

Hi Everyone,

The Seed Ambassadors Project will be giving a Seed Saving workshop this Sunday, August 16 from 1pm - 3pm at the Skinner City Farm in Eugene.

This workshop will include discussion of the importance of saving seed, guidelines for population size and isolation for seed saving purposes,as well as demonstrations of wet, dry, and fermentation seed processing. If you have seed that you don't know how to process, bring it and we will get it taken care of.

The event is free and is hosted by the City of Eugene Parks and Open Space Division. Light snacks will be provided, and as always, some seed will be available to those in attendance.

Skinner City Farm is located in Skinner Butte Park, at the corner of Lawrence Street and Cheshire. (Two blocks north of 1st Ave.)

We hope to see you there!

Sarah and Andrew

The Seed Ambassadors Project
www.seedambassadors.org

Adaptive Seeds
www.adaptiveseeds.com