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
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
Last weekend was a watershed moment in the Eastern Canadian organic seedscape. A hundred or so seed growers, seed savers, farmers, gardeners, seed, seed sellers, seed buyers, academics, students, NGOs, and some folks who’d never even gardened met at Seed Connections 2012 in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Frank Morton (from Wild Garden Seeds in Philomath, Oregon) opened the event … More Looking back at SEED CONNECTIONS 2012
November 9-11, 2012; Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec SEED CONNECTIONS is the first major seed growing conference in Eastern Canada. Seed savers, farmers, gardeners, market growers and all kind of seedy people will be able to get together to learn and talk about seed, and bring the Canadian organic seed movement further. Don’t miss the connection! This fully … More Seed Connections: the 2012 ECOSGN Seed Symposium
The 2012 SAB garlic festival is on August 18 – only 9 days away! You can find our more on The English website The French website The facebook page And/or read the following press realease … For Immediate Release: Quebec’s Premiere Garlic Festival Gears Up for 6th Edition August 18 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC: It’s Garlic Harvest … More 2012 Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue Garlic Festival
Here’s a press release from Seeds of Diversity about a great seed conference we’re putting on this fall (More details will be coming shortly): Attention Seed savers and seed enthusiasts, farmers and gardeners! – Please join us for our Seed Conference: “Seed Connections – Broadcasting Seed from Coast to Coast”, to be held at McGill … More Montreal Seed Conference November 9 to 11, 2012
Here is a video that Ben Gable from the Real Seed Company sent me of their DIY seed cleaner: Open-Source, DIY Seed Cleaner Plans are also available on their site If you want to see more DIY seed cleaning equipment, you can view two of my previous post that include the air columns that Patrice … More The Real Seed Catalogue DIY Seed Cleaner
After getting back from the OSA conference I participated in a two-day Train The Seed Trainer session organized by USC Canada in Guelph, Ontario. USC Canada works to promote vibrant family farms, strong rural communities, and healthy ecosystems around the world. A large part of this work is around seed security and diversity. Historically USC … More Training Seed Trainers
On Jan 19-21, 2012, I attended the 6th Organic Seed Growers Conference in organized by the Organic Seed Alliance (OSA). The event started off with a one-day tour of the Skagit Vally seed region and then two days of conferences in Port Towsnend, WA. If you missed the event, you can download the conference proceedings … More My trip to the OSA Organic Seed Growers Conference