Working with Seeds

It was a packed house for this event!

Thanks for the super informative Seed Saving Workshop led by Caroline Chartrand and Matthew Dueck! They taught us about the importance of saving seeds in order to have genetic diversity and a large gene pool within our seed poplulations. This will help us grow food in a changing climate. More genetic diversity allows for plants with different traits to survive in different conditions, thus increasing our food security. Caroline and Matthew instructed us on how to save different types of seeds including information on isolation distances and how to ensure seeds are true-to-type.  Most importantly these expert seed savers explained how saving seeds is a community event, each gardeners saves some seeds and then shares these seeds with those in the community so that many different seeds can be saved from many different vegetables.

We also had a few gardners show up for the Seed Exchange and quite a few seeds were swapped.

Thank you for a wonderful evening!