Event: BC Seeds Gathering 2012

Date: 
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 08:00 to Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 17:00
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LOCATION:
Kwantlen University - Richmond Campus

COST: 
Weekend Registraion Including Meals - $200
Saturday Only - including meals $125

 

This event is a provincial gathering of seed growers, savers and activists. Small-scale seed growers, community leaders, seed networks and young urban farmers from across BC will bring their seeds to clean, test a variety of cleaning equipment, learn, share experiences and form a BCSeeds producer cooperative. We will decide how to improve the quality and quantity of locally grown seed and strategize how to protect our seed from GE contamination. 

 

  • Don Tipping – Siskiyou Seeds and the Farm Farmers Seed Cooperative
  • Susan Walsh, USC Canada – The Bauta Initiative- National Seed Program
  • Micaela Colley, Executive Director – Organic Seed Alliance (OSA)
  • Dan Jason – Salt Spring Seed Sanctuary
  • Patrick Steiner – Stellar Seeds
  • Mojave Kaplan – Planting Seed Project

… and other scale seed growers, community leaders, seed networks and young urban farmers from across BC.

We are bringing seeds to clean and trade, testing a variety of cleaning equipment, learning, sharing experiences and forming a BCSeeds producer cooperative. We will decide how to improve the quality and quantity of locally grown seed and stratagize how to protect our seed from GE contamination.

We will be exchanging web broadcast with a parallel conference in Montreal.

TO REGISTER:

http://www.farmfolkcityfolk.ca/events/bc-seeds-gathering-2012/