Seed Saving Workshop Video with Mojave Kaplan
Thank you to everyone that attended in person in the Lillooet Library as well as online for this event!
Seed Saving Workshop in Collaboration with Kanaka Bar Indian Band, FarmFolk CityFolk, the Lillooet Library Association and Lillooet Agriculture and Food Society
An in-person Introductory Seed Saving Workshop held in partnership between Lillooet Food Matters and the Kanaka Bar Indian Band. This workshop, which includes class and seed-cleaning time, is part of a longer on-line event organized by FarmFolk CityFolk: "From the Ground Up: Everything you need to Know about Seed Libraries" as well as Introductory and Intermediate Seed Saving.
Join us in person at the Lillooet REC Center at 10AM or join online on Zoom to watch the workshop live. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83694885295?pwd=TmhZaEFDVWd1V2pmZ0cyclJOcTFBQT09 Passcode: 787778
Zoom link for the Q&A on Sunday, November 27th at 12 pm PT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88356033370
Please register for the event and receive the meeting passcode by contacting Ina at 250-256-0667.
Check out the following resources for learning about Seed Saving:
Seed Savers Exchange - Seed Saving Guide, includes isolation distances, populations sizes for various crops
Organic Seed Alliance - Seed Saving Guide - 30 page booklet format
Seed Storage Guide from Johnny’s
Seed Ambassador’s Project Seed Saving Zine
Seeds of Diversity Canada - How to Save Your Own Seeds Book
EARTH DAY Seed Swap & Bedding Plant Exchange April 22/22
We decided this year it was best to not hold a traditional Seedy Saturday in-person event but rather offer an outdoor experience in April to celebrate Earth Day! A St'at'imc Elder and drumming ceremony will open the event. Local musicians will play throughout the day. Besides inviting people to bring seeds for the swap table, we encourage folks to start a few extra bedding plants and bring them to the event for swapping. The Community Seed Library will also be there, as well as seed cleaning equipment including the winnower.
In response to concerns about the preservation of biodiversity as well as the need for local food security and a resilient adaptation to climate change, we have invited St'at'imc-owned Split Rock Environmental to come and sell a diverse array of native plants (flowers, berries, ground cover, shrubs, and grasses). We also invited a number of local groups who share these concerns to bring their information tables. To simplify our efforts this year there will be no seed companies present for selling seeds nor the usual Seedy Saturday vendors (except for Split Rock). We hope next year to return to something closer to the well-loved Seedy Saturday event again.
Let's celebrate EARTH DAY together!
Super Successful Seedy Sunday 2020!
Jane as a carrot, at the ACT booth on Sunday. How fun!
March 8th marked another successful Seedy Sunday in Lillooet.
Once again farmers, vendors, garden enthusiasts and visitors alike flocked to the Rec Centre Gym to take part. Seeds of all kinds were available along with expert advice on growing them.
Locally grown and made products were also plentiful.
Chris from One Love Farm with his garlic and greens, and CSA sign up sheet!
A scrumptious lunch was provided by Rainshadow Café.
Prizes of all sorts had been generously donated to make a very full raffle table.
There were many lucky winners!
Eleanor, a founder of Lillooet Food Matters and Lillooet’s Seedy Sunday event works the raffle table.
This was a good opportunity for the Lillooet Agriculture and Food Society to engage with the community. There were great conversations had with many locals. The big focus for LAFS at this Seedy Sunday was to promote this year’s Fall Fair - and especially to remind everyone to plant with the fair in mind!
SLRD Area B Director Vivian Birch-Jones checks out the Farm Directory!
LAFS can’t wait to see everyone on September 19th with their biggest pumpkins and purplest potatoes! May everyone have an awesome summer in their gardens.
Blog post written by Megan Meservia
Photos by Matthew Davidson.