Urban Roots Community Garden Center is pleased to present a workshop on seed saving by local expert and proprietor of Faerie Seeds, Richard Price. This workshop is the first educational workshop provided by Urban Roots to best serve our customers and the Buffalo community. The workshop is free and open to the public.
A huge amount of the genetic diversity in our food supply has been lost in the past few decades as large seed/chemical conglomerates switch to hybrid vegetable varieties, increasing their profits and forcing the farmer and home gardener to return each year to purchase new seed.
Members of organizations such as Seedsavers’ Exchange have assumed the job of saving from extinction those old-fashioned vegetable varieties selected by generations of farmers, gardeners, and early seedsmen for their yields, unique flavor qualities, adaptation to local growing conditions, etc.
This presentation provides basic seed-saving techniques enabling the gardener to preserve--indefinitely--those heirloom varieties he or she prefers to grow, which are not necessarily those currently available commercially. (“Remember how great tomatoes used to taste?”)
May 19 . 2 PM . Urban Roots Community Garden Center . 428 Rhode Island Street
Presented by Richard Price: -35 years organic gardening experience -NOFA member/certified organic market gardener 1989-1993 -Member, Seedsavers’ Exchange since 1987 -(for more information call 882-6056 or e-mail rwprice13@msn.com )
Urban Roots Community Garden Center is a consumer cooperative retail business whose mission is to provide quality products for gardening in the City of Buffalo and be an active and enriching member of the community. Our mission is to offer affordable, unusual heirloom, organic and local plants and gardening supplies; to foster a working relationship with the greater neighborhood in order to encourage beautification and urban renewal; and to engage the community through education, employment, outreach, expertise and volunteering efforts.