Peterborough Examiner Seedy Sunday Article
Click here to read an article featured in the Peterborough Examiner on Monday March 14th about Peterborough's Seedy Sunday. thanks for the coverage!
Peterborough Seedy Sunday 2011
Thanks everyone for such a successful and fun Seedy Sunday 2011. By my very informal estimates, I would say that there was well over 1000 people through the doors of St. James United Church yesterday afternoon! Amazing!
I will post some pictures soon, but was so busy during the event, I barely had any time to take photographs. If anyone has some great one's from the day that they would like to share, please send them along to me!
I do not yet know just how many seeds were bought & traded, but I do know that I brought well over 300 packs of seeds to the exchange area, very few of which were left when I finally made it in there at the end of the day! Yeah for seed being spread out to future gardens all over the region. It warms my heart to think of all the food that will be grown and eaten from the tiny seeds that made into folks hands yesterday.
I think the event has grown beyond my capacity as an individual to organize, so next year I will be looking to build upon partnerships with local organizations, groups, and of course volunteers!
So if you had a great time at Seedy Sunday & would like to be part of future year's events, please send me an email! Thanks everyone! Jillian Bishop
Seedy Sunday- Peterborough's Annual Seed Exchange
This Week-end!
Seedy Sunday
Sunday March 13th - 1-4pm
Come and buy seeds (& other fab stuff) from these great vendors:
- Terra Edibles
- Les Bowser – Cedar Grove
- Green-Side-Up Environmental Services
- Heritage Seed & Produce – Kingston
- Greta’s Organics
- Urbantomato seeds
- Wallflower Studios
- Wildsome Gardens
- Peterborough Eats
- Mountain Grove Seed Company
- Earth Works
Learn some great stuff from or find out how to be involved with these community groups:
Bring some seeds to trade or check out the workshops listed below in the blog!
Great Passage from a Great Book
"SpringEvery seed has a story, encrypted in a narrative line that stretches back for thousands of years. And if you trace that story, traveling with that little seed backwards in time, you might find yourself tucked into an immigrant's hatband or sewn into a young wife's dress as she smuggles you from the old country in the the New World. Or you might be clinging to the belly wool of a yak as you travel across the steeps of Mongolia . . . . Seeds tell the story of migrations and drifts, so if you learn to read them, they are very much like books
. . . However, the information contained in a seed is a different story, entirely vital, pertaining to life itself. Why? Because seeds contain the information necessary to perform the most essential of all alchemies, something that we cannot do: They know how to transform sunlight into food and oxygen so that the rest of us can survive.
Of course, this is what planting is all about - the ancient impulse to harness that miracle and make it perform for our benefit. To emulate the divine author and tease forth a new crop of stories from the earth."
~ Ruth Ozeki - All Over Creation
Seedy Sunday Workshops
Seedy Sunday Workshops:
Farm to Table's Donald Fraser & Krista Campbell Fraser will take you through a year in the kitchen of a Peterborough "locavore." Take a month-by-month seasonal trip through the Peterborough area and learn how to create versatile year-round menus using local ingredients and produce from your own urban garden. Explore the benefits of making your own breads, cereals, and yogurt. Learn to supplement your winter menus by canning, freezing, and drying foods during the harvest.
1:30 - Shelley Baptie, long-time Seeds of Diversity member and seed saver extraordinaire will be talking about Seeds of Diversity and seed saving.
2:30 - "365 Days of Local"
Farm to Table's Donald Fraser & Krista Campbell Fraser will take you through a year in the kitchen of a Peterborough "locavore." Take a month-by-month seasonal trip through the Peterborough area and learn how to create versatile year-round menus using local ingredients and produce from your own urban garden. Explore the benefits of making your own breads, cereals, and yogurt. Learn to supplement your winter menus by canning, freezing, and drying foods during the harvest.
why i love seedy sunday. the long version
I am getting really excited for this Sunday March 13th. Another year, another season, another Seed Exchange. This is the 6th year that the Peterborough Seed Exchange has hosted this event. This is the 4th (?) year that we have been at St. James United Church. I think it is gonna be great.
Remember to check out all the vendors ahead of time if you are one of those gardeners who likes to make a list? **Warning no matter how organized you come ahead of time, you will be tempted by the cornucopia of possibilities that exist in that room!!
There will be enough seed in that room to fill this church full of food, and produce millions more little seeds that could fill many churches full of food, and produce millions more little seeds, and grow more and more food, and, well i think you get the picture.
so come out, support your local seed savers and community groups, get some locally grown, organic and heirloom seeds. meet your farmer, get some knowledge and resources. connect with your friends that you haven't seen since last season, or may not have time to catch up with after the farming season comes fully upon us. dream of future gardens, plan your garden for this season, and mostly, get inspired for Spring!
that's my long version, of why i love Seedy Sunday. hope to see you all there!
urbantomato
Starting Your Seeds
Starting Your Seeds:
1) Start tomatoes & peppers indoors in late March or early April. Greens are cold hardy & can be started directly outdoors, in cold frames or indoors in early spring.
2) Collect containers that have proper drainage. Wash pots before using.
3) Fill pots, egg cartons or cell packs with soilless medium.
4) Poke your thumb into soil to make a small indentation.
5) Place one seed in each container. Cover with soil
6) Sit your plants in a bright warm & sunny place. If you don't have enough light, seedlings will get spindly & weak reaching for a stronger light source.
7) Water enough to keep soil moist but not drenched.
8) Label your containers.
9) Seeds should sprout in a week- 10 days.
10) Keep moist & enjoy watching them grow
urbantomato will be at the saturday market this week-end!
urbantomato will be at the Peterborough Farmers' Market this Saturday March 5th. Come down and check out all the fabulous vendors offering everything from artisan cheese, vegetables galore, perogies, coffee, crafts, cider, and general good times.Come visit the booth for a sign of Spring!
Seeds of Sovereignty Video & Hot Pepper Seed Saving Tutorial
Film: Seeds of Sovereignty
Written/Mediated and Directed by Brian Mitolo
Produced by Dan English
Short film of Peterborough area food providers, sharing ideas and experiences around food production and seed saving.
The film proceeds from the question: Tell me what you are working at during the winter? The answers are as diverse as the participants, but I think the edited conversation communicates the idea that what is being brought to the table, by way of sharing stories and experiences, are the actual seeds of food sovereignty.
There is a unity of purpose between Jill's plans for a seed exchange, Peggy's land negotiations, Jay's winter farm experiments, Andrew's plans for distribution, and Rachelle growing free food in urban lots. They all want to feed people. They all seek direct relationships with the communities they feed.
As the director of "Seeds of Sovereignty" I hope you share these files and the messages they contain as you would exchange seeds, for propagation. The short files are part of a project we are working on during 2011, which features food growers and providers who live in our area who put the idea of social justice to work. I will be uploading more footage as I shoot and I look forward to your own perspectives as viewers as I edit the project.
"Seeds of Sovereignty" will take a look at the concept of food sovereignty from the perspectives of front line participants in the struggle to reclaim our right to our most basic need.
I am very grateful to Peggy and Jill and Rachelle and Andrew and Jay for participating. I look forward to meeting all of you again over the coming season.
Written/Mediated and Directed by Brian Mitolo
Produced by Dan English
Short film of Peterborough area food providers, sharing ideas and experiences around food production and seed saving.
The film proceeds from the question: Tell me what you are working at during the winter? The answers are as diverse as the participants, but I think the edited conversation communicates the idea that what is being brought to the table, by way of sharing stories and experiences, are the actual seeds of food sovereignty.
There is a unity of purpose between Jill's plans for a seed exchange, Peggy's land negotiations, Jay's winter farm experiments, Andrew's plans for distribution, and Rachelle growing free food in urban lots. They all want to feed people. They all seek direct relationships with the communities they feed.
As the director of "Seeds of Sovereignty" I hope you share these files and the messages they contain as you would exchange seeds, for propagation. The short files are part of a project we are working on during 2011, which features food growers and providers who live in our area who put the idea of social justice to work. I will be uploading more footage as I shoot and I look forward to your own perspectives as viewers as I edit the project.
"Seeds of Sovereignty" will take a look at the concept of food sovereignty from the perspectives of front line participants in the struggle to reclaim our right to our most basic need.
I am very grateful to Peggy and Jill and Rachelle and Andrew and Jay for participating. I look forward to meeting all of you again over the coming season.
the countdown is on . . .
Seedy Sunday is less than two weeks away!
Make sure you check out the links to the seed vendors (to the right), visit their sites and start making a list of all the seeds you want buy!
Here are some of my favourite photos from last year . .
Seed Exchange Area
Peterborough Seedy Sunday is fast approaching & it is time to start getting your seeds ready for the Seed Exchange Area. The following is some more information to help you prepare. Email me if you have any other questions, to donate ahead of time, or you would like more information
Eating arugula in no time . . .
My rouge arugula seeds are growing along splendidly. I may even have to thin them out soon! mmmm february arugula! i think i am going to start a whole flat of greens on my sunny rad. Stay tuned . . .
Sign of Spring!!
Even though this is what i see when i look out the window . . .
i did discover a very encouraging sign of the season to come
all week, i have been putting a few extra seeds leftover from packaging seeds in the potted plants in my house. it's a sort of germination test & these arugula seeds are passing with flying colours. i put them in the pot with my chocolate pepper plant only three or four days ago & they are sprouting like mad! fresh greens inside in a few weeks!?! Plants love living on top of radiators.
Preperations
Toronto Seed Exchange
This year's Toronto Event is Seedy Sunday - Feb. 13th - 12:30-6pm at Hart House
See the Toronto Community Garden Network site or scroll down for more info!
Here are some photos from last year to help get you excited for how great this event is going to be!
Toronto Seedy Sunday 2010
These are all the seeds I traded in the seed exchange area last year!
urbantomato booth
the crowds of eager gardeners
Toronto Seedy Sunday is this week-end! Sunday Feb. 13th 12:30-6pm
Toronto's Seedy Sunday is always a great event. Usually very busy, full of friends made over past years, excited gardeners planning their seasons, and lots of seeds!
I am busy working & packaging up storm. it is lightly snowing outside, but somewhere deep within i am starting to feel spring coming again!
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