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To Boldly Prune
Are your pruning skills a little lacking? Could it be that you are (I’ll lower my voice discretely) afraid to prune? Do you circle overgrown shrubs tentatively, peering into their depths, and then decide that the best plan is to go inside for a cup of tea? Perhaps you fear that once you make that […]
Seedy Saturday Turns Twenty
Twenty. Victoria’s Seedy Saturday will be twenty years old this year. Old enough to drive. And to drink. (Though we wouldn’t. At least not at the same time.) It began as a community seed exchange, a way to help preserve open-pollinated and heritage plants. The seed exchange is still at the heart of Seedy Saturday: […]
It Takes a Lot of ‘Seedy’ Characters…
To turn a Saturday into a Seedy Saturday. So here’s a big thank you to all of you who helped make the day. So…. thanks to everybody who came out, traded seeds, bought garden supplies, and laughed at us when we realized that we’d somehow left one of last year’s talks in this year’s programme. […]
Adventures in Extreme Seed-Saving
You may think of seed-saving as a fairly gentle – even bucolic – pastime. But not the way Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken of Far Reaches Farm in Port Townsend do it! Come to Seedy Saturday tomorrow to hear about their adventures botanizing in the mountains of SW China – an area rarely visited by […]
What’s the Current Hot Potato?
If you’re wondering what’s going on with food policy planning around Victoria, you can find out at this year’s Seedy Saturday, February 18th in the Victoria Conference Centre. At 2 pm, Pat Reichert, well known for her work on food security projects on Salt Spring Island, will be moderating a panel of food activists, members […]
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