One challenge of selling seeds versus selling vegetables or fresh cut flowers is how to build strong relationships with the gardeners looking for seats. Yeah, yeah – I know you post engaging content on your social media feed that shows your authentic self and your beautiful crops. But you aren’t building the same kind of … More Seedy Saturday Season is back
How To Save Your Own Seeds by Seeds Of Diversity Canada This is a simple 68 page book packed with more seed saving information than you can believe. It’s actually the 6th edition of this book, and every edition has gotten clearer and better in every way! One of the additions in recent editions has … More Farmer Book Club: How To Save Your Own Seeds by Seeds
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
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
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
Organic Seed Symposium: Growing the Atlantic Organic Seed Network October 23-24, 2010 ? Moncton, New Brunswick ? www.seeds.ca/ecosgn Download details and registrations here: ECOSGN Seed Symposium. This 1-1/2 day seminar will address the production techniques, marketing resources, regulations, and economics of growing organic seed on a market scale. Meet your fellow organic seed growers and resource … More Organic Seed Symposium in Moncton, NB
I love seedy Saturdays and Sundays. I guess, I like any event where gardeners, farmers and seed companies get together to trade and buy seeds. Wikipedia tells me the first Seedy Saturday took place on Valentine’s Day 1989. Today there are more than 50 Seedy days across Canada. Seeds of Diversity has a list of the … More The Season of Seedy Saturdays and Sundays
On April 10-11, 2010, the Eastern Canadian Organic Seed Growers Network (ECOSGN) and Seeds of Diversity Canada (SoDC) are putting on an organic seed production workshop in Ottawa, Ontario. Download details and registration form here: Seed Workshop April 2010 This is the gist of the event: Planning Your Farm’s Organic Seed Productions The ABC’s of Crop Planning, Crop Economics … More Two Day Organic Seed Workshop in Ottawa – April 10-11, 2010