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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 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.
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!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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
Monday, August 24, 2009
Get Your Winter Garden On With the Seed Ambassadors!
The totally awesome folks from the Seed Ambassador Project (I love these folks!) will be offering all of us garden slackers a unique opportunity to purchase some of the most unique and region specific winter vegetable starts for our cold season gardening endeavors. You'll have to take a little road trip to get the plants, but I guarantee it will be worth it! Here's the scoop:
This Friday (Aug. 28th) and next Friday (Sept 4th), from 10.00 a.m. thru 2.00 p.m., the Community Transitions Nursery will be selling organic veggie starts at the Springfield Farmers Market – on Main Street between 5th and 6th (map). Their offerings focus on fall, mid-winter and over-wintering vegetable crops, and include many Seed Ambassadors Project varieties.
Anticipating that most gardeners are unused to fall and winter cropping schedules and will have missed the early August transplant window crucial for sizing up most of the mainstay vegetable crops that will feed us through the forthcoming winter, the nursery ‘potted up’ many of these seedlings into 4” pots to grow them on, in past weeks. Transplanted into your gardens within the next couple of weeks (there is still time to prepare ground), an array of these thriving plants will feed you October thru May – the eight month period making up the longest ‘harvest season’ of the year. For those of you as yet unsure about the wherefores of fall, mid- and over-winter cropping, I will be giving a public talk on the subject at this Friday’s market at 12.00 p.m. and will, of course, be happy to answer questions there.
We are quietly confident that no nursery in the PNW currently comes close to offering the diversity and quality of winter food plants we are now making available. Our current selections reflect the results of extensive winter trialing, selection and breeding programs by public domain plant breeders in the S. Willamette Valley working with collaborators throughout the PNW and Western and Eastern Europe, in recent years.
All our transplants are raised in N. Springfield at our nursery (a program of the Community Transitions Program of the Springfield Schools District) by young-adults and adults with special needs, who come to us from Springfield schools and Lane Community College. All proceeds from nursery sales support our greenhouse.
All material offered by the nursery is open-pollinated. Varieties locally stewarded by the Seed Ambassadors Project (SAP) are noted. For cultural information see our fall and winter cropping table.
Please click HERE for a full listing of varieties.
Did I mention I LOVE the Seed Ambassadors?
This Friday (Aug. 28th) and next Friday (Sept 4th), from 10.00 a.m. thru 2.00 p.m., the Community Transitions Nursery will be selling organic veggie starts at the Springfield Farmers Market – on Main Street between 5th and 6th (map). Their offerings focus on fall, mid-winter and over-wintering vegetable crops, and include many Seed Ambassadors Project varieties.
Anticipating that most gardeners are unused to fall and winter cropping schedules and will have missed the early August transplant window crucial for sizing up most of the mainstay vegetable crops that will feed us through the forthcoming winter, the nursery ‘potted up’ many of these seedlings into 4” pots to grow them on, in past weeks. Transplanted into your gardens within the next couple of weeks (there is still time to prepare ground), an array of these thriving plants will feed you October thru May – the eight month period making up the longest ‘harvest season’ of the year. For those of you as yet unsure about the wherefores of fall, mid- and over-winter cropping, I will be giving a public talk on the subject at this Friday’s market at 12.00 p.m. and will, of course, be happy to answer questions there.
We are quietly confident that no nursery in the PNW currently comes close to offering the diversity and quality of winter food plants we are now making available. Our current selections reflect the results of extensive winter trialing, selection and breeding programs by public domain plant breeders in the S. Willamette Valley working with collaborators throughout the PNW and Western and Eastern Europe, in recent years.
All our transplants are raised in N. Springfield at our nursery (a program of the Community Transitions Program of the Springfield Schools District) by young-adults and adults with special needs, who come to us from Springfield schools and Lane Community College. All proceeds from nursery sales support our greenhouse.
All material offered by the nursery is open-pollinated. Varieties locally stewarded by the Seed Ambassadors Project (SAP) are noted. For cultural information see our fall and winter cropping table.
Please click HERE for a full listing of varieties.
Did I mention I LOVE the Seed Ambassadors?
Monday, August 17, 2009
Cold Weather Gardening Chart From The Seed Ambassadors
The ag wizards over at the Seed Ambassadors and Adaptive Seeds are at it again and they've just electronically published a positively first rate guide to cold weather planting in the Southern Willamette Valley. A little tweaking and those of us up here in the north country can make good use of this information as well. Check it out!
Chart for Gardening Autumn through Spring in the Southern Willamette Valley
The Seed Ambassadors ROCK!!
Chart for Gardening Autumn through Spring in the Southern Willamette Valley
The Seed Ambassadors ROCK!!
Thursday, August 13, 2009
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
www.adaptiveseeds.com
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
www.adaptiveseeds.com
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Seed Ambassadors Present - A Guide to Seed Saving, Seed Stewardship & Seed Sovereignty, 3rd Edition
I love the folks at the Seed Ambassadors Project. They're doing some seriously important and amazing work, providing us with tons of free information on seed saving, and presenting us with an outstanding seed catalog of Pacific NW appropriate crops derived via independent plant breeders, seedsmen, and rare/ancient/near-forgotten varieties from international seed banks and passionate home gardeners. Sarah & Andrew, you guys ROCK!
Here's the preamble from the 3rd Edition of the Seed Ambassadors awesome Seed Saving Zine:
If SEED SAVING is collecting seeds for replanting in the future…
Then SEED STEWARDSHIP is the process of saving seeds with the purpose of maintaining or improving that seed’s health and resilience. It also includes the act of saving and selecting a variety over a period of many seasons, with the end goal of passing it on to others in the future.
The ideal of SEED SOVEREIGNTY firmly plants seed saving and seed stewardship in the realm of fundamental human rights. It is the freedom to save seed and determine the foundation on which our food system rests. With the current attacks of industry hitting at the heart of food sovereignty, the simple act of seed saving becomes a major act of resistance and social empowerment.
Sends chills down my spine and makes me want to get out and plant a few rows! Click the link below to view and/or download the full .pdf version of the Seed Saving Zine.
Seed Ambassadors Seed Saving Zine - 3rd Edition
Here's the preamble from the 3rd Edition of the Seed Ambassadors awesome Seed Saving Zine:
If SEED SAVING is collecting seeds for replanting in the future…
Then SEED STEWARDSHIP is the process of saving seeds with the purpose of maintaining or improving that seed’s health and resilience. It also includes the act of saving and selecting a variety over a period of many seasons, with the end goal of passing it on to others in the future.
The ideal of SEED SOVEREIGNTY firmly plants seed saving and seed stewardship in the realm of fundamental human rights. It is the freedom to save seed and determine the foundation on which our food system rests. With the current attacks of industry hitting at the heart of food sovereignty, the simple act of seed saving becomes a major act of resistance and social empowerment.
Sends chills down my spine and makes me want to get out and plant a few rows! Click the link below to view and/or download the full .pdf version of the Seed Saving Zine.
Seed Ambassadors Seed Saving Zine - 3rd Edition
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