Our annual open house is coming up. The full details are below. But one thing I’ll point out to all my seedy readers is that I will be giving seed and garlic tours during the event! Full Details Get out your calendars and reserve Sunday July 5th for our Open House. This also happens to … More Tourne-Sol Open House on Sunday 5 July, 2015
TUESDAY, May 12 at 6:30 pm The Atwater Library is inviting the public to the launch of its seed library, a seed-sharing program for everyone in the Greater Montreal region. The evening includes a showing of the film Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds with discussion. Plus… free distribution of seeds and tomato plants — … More Atwater Seed Library Launch – Tuesday May 12
One month from today we will be in the middle of Seed Connections 2014. If you work with seed or want to know anything about seeds, you should not miss this event. If you participated in the 2012 edition, you know what I’m talking about. If you missed the last Seed Connections, well you can … More Seed Connetions 2014 Conference!
Two days until the Ste-Anne-Garlic festival! Find out more at http://steannegarlicfestival.wordpress.com/ or on Facebook We are busy brushing garlic bulbs with toothbrushes for the occasion! If you can’t make the event, you can live vicariously through last year’s garlic fest video.
The Concordia Seed Project (http://concordiaseedproject.weebly.com/) invites you to join us on Wednesday, August 13 from 2-4pm for an afternoon with seed saving expert Daniel Brisebois at the Tourne-Sol Co-operative farm. This farm tour will focus on large-scale organic seed production. Hands on seed saving demonstrations will be part of the afternoon activities. This tour is … More Seed Saving Farm Tour At Tourne-Sol Farm
ECOSGN is currently planning the 2014 Seed Connections Conference. We would love your input! What do you want to learn? Is there a speaker you’d love to see? You can tell us by filling out one of these forms: ECOSGN-Call for-Proposals-SESSIONS-03-3.2014 ECOSGN Formulaire Appel de Propositions
You are invited to join us for a webinar on Planning Vegetable Seed Crops. The first in our series “Growing for Seed: The Fundamentals” this webinar will feature presentations from Patrick Steiner (Stellar Seeds, BC), Daniel Brisebois (Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm, QC), and Michelle Smith (Northwind Farm, NS). Together they’ll cover a range of topics to get you started in your seed … More Planning Seed Crops Webinar – Wed. Feb 19, 2014
This brand new Ste-Anne garlic fest movie will make you jump in your vehicle on Saturday, August 24 from 9 am to 2 pm and get to the Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue farmers market for the 7th annual garlic fest! You can find out more on the English garlic fest website or the French festival de l’ail website. … More 2013 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Garlic Festival
Happy New Year! On Tuesday Jan. 15, I’m giving a webinar on integrating seed production into market gardens in French for Farmstart. The details are below. I will be giving the same webinar in English in early February. When the dates are confirmed, I will post them. Webinaire sur comment intégrer la conservation de semences … More French webinar on integrating seed production into market gardens
The November 9-11, 2012 weekend was a seedy one cross Canada. I’ve already reported back about ECOSGN’s Seed Connection conference in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC. On the other side of the country the BC Seeds Network had a 3-day BC Seeds Gathering and it sounds like it was just as fantastic as the East Coast event. Farm Folk … More 2012 BC Seeds Gathering Videos