[Garden] An idea for all our extra seeds

Tue May 12 14:00:10 EDT 2009

Re. seeds
Why can't we just keep the seeds for future years, have a seed bank, when times are hard its best to bank on seeds, we could trade with other organic communities, but we should still keep a diverse and large quantity of seeds.  Has anyone heard of Heritage seeds- of the USA,  they help to store seeds in cool containers, and they sell seeds, non-gmo, organic seeds.  Organic non-hybrid seeds are rare, and are  becoming more rare in this Green Revolution world ( Everyone knows that the Green revolution- that promises higher yields, pest free plants uses  Genitically Modified -GM seeds, more drugs, and pesticides, and herbicides.  The Green revolution philosophy is kept within many Research labs in many Universities and Chemical and Pharmaceutical Co.  )  
I always though it was best to keep a bank of seeds to fall back on on during hard times or any time, or when certain plants were diseased we could then turn to other families of the same plant. Are we giving away all the seeds?  I think we should trade seeds, we could give some away but we should try to trade and share seeds within organic communities so as to keep a diverse bank of seeds for the future.   

--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Candace Wormsbecker <candace at owr.ca> wrote:

From: Candace Wormsbecker <candace at owr.ca>
Subject: Re: [Garden] An idea for all our extra seeds
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Received: Tuesday, May 12, 2009, 8:04 AM

I'll bring the seed tomorrow and we can go through and decide.

Candace

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-----Original Message-----
From: garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org [mailto:garden-bounces at lists.wpirg.org]
On Behalf Of Madeline Rosamond
Sent: May-12-09 8:08 AM
To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
Subject: Re: [Garden] An idea for all our extra seeds

Matt says he'll take whatever we want to give, so the floor's open. I
think we could certainly divvy things up between him and whatever
local garden that wants any - maybe one with shared plots?
Cheers,
Maddy

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Ian Wormsbecker
<iwormsbecker at sandvine.com> wrote:
> There are also a bunch of gardens here in the Waterloo Region that could
> make use of the seeds.
>
> Ian
>
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> On Behalf Of Alicia Mah
> Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 5:17 PM
> To: garden at lists.wpirg.org
> Subject: Re: [Garden] An idea for all our extra seeds
>
> Hi,
>
> I think this would a great way to get rid of our extra seeds in a useful
> way, especially the ones that we know we won't be using this year.
>
> Alicia
>
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Madeline Rosamond <m.rosamond at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, all:
>> Many of you may recall seeing all the seeds we have that are several
>> years old and should probably be used soon. Some of you may remember
>> the excellent Matt Thompson who showed up to one of the Community
>> Garden Council workshops and does a lot of good work in Hamilton
>> getting low-income people to grow their own food. (He's also my
>> boyfriend's brother.) I asked him if he could use some of our older
>> seeds for his gardening projects if that was okay with everyone.
>> Thoughts? I've got the list on my computer of all our seeds and how
>> old they are (if they have a date) so it should be easy to figure out
>> what we have lots of.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Maddy
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