Seedy Sunday at Concord Fowler Branch Library 4/7/13 from 1-3pm

Hello Gardeners,

We hope you can join us next Sunday at the Fowler Branch Library for a "Seedy Sunday" event to help get the Seed Lending Library ready for it's opening on Earth Day, April 22nd. Please see the details below:

Welcome to Seedy Sunday!

Sunday, April 7^th

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Concord Fowler Branch Library

1322 Main St. Concord MA

Learn about our new Seed Lending Library

Donate open pollinated, and/or heirloom seeds to the seed lending library

 Sign up to help get the library ready to open on Earth Day, April 22^nd

We need helping hands to sort seeds, package seeds, and to stock the seed cabinet

Volunteer to be one of the maintenance crew ensuring that the cabinet is always stocked

Tell us what kind of seed saving and gardening classes you need and want

Meet area gardeners and we’ll have a fun, sharing afternoon together

Light refreshments will be served
www.concordseedlendinglibrary.org

"One Seed at a Time" Event at the Museum of Science 3/13

Hello Gardeners,

The Concord Seed Lending Library will be represented at a table by Enid Boasberg and myself, after the speakers presentation, from 8-9pm this Wed. 3/13 at the Museum of Science. Hope some of you may consider dropping by!

Kitty

A RENO FAMILY FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM

One Seed at a Time Wednesday, March 13 | 7:00 - 9:00 pm Admission: $15 | Buy Tickets With Cary Fowler, PhD, special advisor, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust and The Fruit Hunters creative team. Tucked away beneath the snow of the Arctic Circle is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Sometimes called "the doomsday vault," it's nothing less than a backup of the planet's horticultural biodiversity. Inside the vault, Dr. Cary Fowler and his team work with seeds from hundreds of crops that have nurtured humanity since our ancestors began tilling the soil. Their goal: to ensure that the world's food supply can survive the dangers of disease, famine, climate change, and identical GMOs. Nearer the equator, documentary filmmaker Yung Chang shows us how intertwined we are with the fruits we eat in The Fruit Hunters. Guided by devoted exotic fruit lovers, he takes us on a cinematic odyssey through nature and commerce, changing not only the way we look at what we eat, but how we view our relationship to the natural world. Following the program, taste a selection of exotic fruits and enjoy a cash bar, featuring tropical Bellinis. Learn how to extract and save seeds, where to trade, exchange or swap, and make seed "bombs" for random acts of gardening--just throw and grow! Funding provided by the Reno Family Foundation Fund

LAST CALL: SEEDS OF CHANGE: RECLAIM THE LEGACY OF SEED SAVING

This week, Thursday, March 14, 7:30 PM  

Bryan Connolly, field botanist, State Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program 

Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord. 

Add "how to save seeds" to your gardening skills tool kit!  

Collecting locally adapted seeds is part of our agricultural heritage and an essential part in growing our own food.  We will learn about the history and utility of seed saving in the context of climate change,  including the seed sowing and saving cycle, self pollinating crops to grow, methods to isolate cross pollinating plants, seed borne pathogens, seed cleaning and storage. We may still buy seeds from companies and swap with friends...but it is possible to start saving seeds this growing season! Come learn how. Bring a friend...or come on your own! 

Connolly is a homestead farmer, FEDCO seed producer, and author of the Northeastern Organic Farming Association seed production handbook, the "Wisdom of Plant Heritage". 

Please consider bringing your leftover open pollinated seed from last year to donate to the Concord Seed Lending Library.

The program is free though we welcome donations to offset program cost and/or contributions of seeds for the opening of the Concord Seed Lending Library in April. Space is limited!   Please RSVP to deb01742@comcast.net. For details, go to www.concordfood.ning.com.

Gardening for Life, ConcordCAN!,  the Concord Seed Lending Library and Thoreau Farm are co-sponsors of this event.

"Seeds of Change" event Thurs. March 14th at 7:30 at Thoreau Farm

 

Find out how you can easily save seeds this summer and help grow the Concord Seed Lending Library. Join us on Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 PM at Thoreau Farm, 341 Virginia Road, Concord.  

Hope to see you there!
Kitty