Saving Seeds for Food & the Future

[Jean]

Shelburne Farms, Shelburne VT

Propagating Mystery Saving Seeds for Food & the Future
Lunch at the Inn & Program

Thursday, JULY 12
TIME: 12:00 – 2:30 pm FEE: $25/person (includes lunch at the inn)
REGISTRATION: 802-985-8686
In her Hartland, Vermont garden, Sylvia Davatz works to save common, rare, and endangered seeds of open-pollinated vegetable varieties. Sylvia will talk about her long passion for seed saving and share stories about successes and failures. Lunch featuring produce from the market garden will be followed by a tour of the market garden with josh carter. Four years ago, Sylvia launched solstice seeds, a small seed company dedicated to offering locally adapted, regionally appropriate, open-pollinated seed.

[jen judkins]

Wish this wasn’t in the middle of the week. Would LOVE to attend! Jean will you go and take notes or audio?

[Jean]

I just got back from attending the saving seeds program. It was one of those programs that you are having so much fun at you do not realize you are learning anything. It helps that I knew nothing about saving seeds. Here are the key things I learned.

1. Start with open-pollinated plants, not Hybrids, because like mules seeds from a hybrid will not produce another plant.

2. In seed catalogs if it says F1 next to the seeds that is a hybrid

3. buy the book Seed to Seed.

4. saving tomato seeds is smelly and messy

5. saved seeds can live a number of years in the fridge

Great day to be out in the market garden.

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