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seed saving workshop
Posted: August 22 2012
Growing for Future Sowing: Saving Quality Seed from Your Farm's Fields
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: Hudson Valley Seed Library: 484 Mettacohonts Rd., Accord, NY 12404 (Ulster Co)
Time: 3:30 PM-6:00 PM
If you’d like to start saving seed on your small diversified organic farm, this field day will offer you a strong foundation. A tour of the Hudson Valley Seed Library’s seed production farm will provide examples of the isolation and pollination techniques used to maintain pure seed varieties. Our discussion will cover distancing, timing of successions, caging and hand-pollinating. Farmers Ken and Doug will talk about hand-cleaning seeds via winnowing and threshing, as well as best practices for seed storage. Under the farmers’ careful supervision and instruction, you will try your hand at processing seeds from tomato, pepper, brassica and other crops. Participants will also get a special insider peek at the seed library cooler. All participants are encouraged to stay for a potluck following the presentation—please bring food to share and your own place settings!
The Hudson Valley Seed Library is a small, farm-based seed company owned and operated by Ken Greene and Doug Muller. The library’s own farm and collaborating farmers save vegetable, herb, and flower seed. Their mission is to provide affordable and reliable Northeast-adapted seeds, celebrate the union of art and agriculture, and to positively impact the community through outreach and education.
This field day is supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, Grant #2011-49400-30510.
Registration: Please register by calling Stephanie Backer-Bertsch at NOFA-NY at 585-271-1979 x 509, or by registering online at http://www.tinyurl.com/nofanyevents. Registration is FREE for NOFA-NY members and $15/ non-members.
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