[Seedgeeks] seed-saving workshop

[Nick Routledge]

The Advanced Organic Gardening Series in Eugene kicks off this Sunday,
with a seed-saving workshop. It will be a hands-on affair. But while we
work you can also expect to learn a little about how incorporating the
seed cycle into the realpolitik of local ecology, may well transform
everything you ever thought about how to eat and, for that matter, live
well. To paraphrase Wendell Berry, we can have agriculture only within
nature, and culture only within agriculture.

We're hoping to have some concise written material readied in time for the
workshop. I'll see if we can get it up on the web for those of you not
able to attend.

Below, I've attached details of the four 'by donation/free' workshops we
have planned over the course of the next two and half weeks as part of our
ongoing Advanced Organic Gardening Series. The first of a continuing
program, we hope.

This initiative is fundamentally participant-driven. So pleeze feel free
to join the fun in any way you can!

Feedback or questions? Don't hesitate to drop me a line.

n.

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Here ya go, then:

ADVANCED ORGANIC GARDENING SERIES

Sunday September 26: 11.00 a.m.
HANDS-ON SEEDSAVING
with seedsman Taylor Zeigler of Unity Seeds, and others. Saving
open-pollinated food and medicine plants; bioregional concerns and
strategies. (Rivers Turn Farm, Coburg. Directions below)

Sunday October 3: 11.00 a.m.
OCTOBER PROPAGATION
with Devon Bonady, and others. Hands-on OG asexual propagation of local
soft- and hardwoods in the month of October. Artemesia, Berberis,
Currants...and many more! (Maitreya eco-village, Eugene. Directions
below.)

Wednesday October 6: 4.00-6.00 p.m.
UNUSUAL EDIBLES/FOREST GARDEN PLANT WALK
with Heiko Koester. Dumas Co-op, 2244 Alder. Call 485-7245 for more
details.

Sunday October 10: 11.00 a.m.
OCTOBER SEEDING STRATEGIES AND TACTICS
with Tom Bettman of the U of O Urban Farm, and others. Cover crops,
garlic, favas, grains, locally-adapted annuals/perennials. (Maitreya
eco-village.)

Coming soon! GARDENING BY PLANETARY CYCLES. USING CITY LEAVES. ADVANCED
COMPOSTING.

Experience to share? The Advanced Organic Gardening Series is
participant-driven. Join us! 

Email: paradisegardening at gmail.com
Vox: Nick at 541.685.2548.
Subscribe: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ogeugene/

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Directions to The Maitreya Eco-village, West Eugene; and River's Turn
Farm, Coburg.

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The Maitreya ecovillage is at the northwest corner of Almaden and West
Broadway (one block east of Chambers and one block south of Eighth.)

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Directions for the Sunday September 26 seed-saving workshop at River's
Turn farm in Coburg are as follows. Take Coburg Road north outta Coburg.
Between milemarker 11 and 12, hang a left on Lane's Turn Road. A hundred
yards on, go over the small bridge, and hang an immediate right on the
dirt road into River's Turn Farm, 31139 Lane's Turn Road. (Two caveats:
please keep to the 25 mph speed limit in Coburg. The locals are rich on
touristas. And second, there's an occasional tendency for drivers going
north outta Coburg to a) hang a right at the fire station on Coburg Road
North, when they should go straight on Coburg Road and b) about 8? miles
outta Coburg, there's a temptation to keep going straight, onto Powerline
road, as Coburg road sweeps grandly round to the left.)




		
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