Digging Deeper Into Seed Saving
This is a continuation of our primer on seed saving. If you did not read it, or need a refresher of the overview, please read part 1.
Edible Evanston, A program of Citizens’ Greener Evanston
The Education Committee produces stand-alone workshops and classes, produces education sessions at general meetings and demos and classes at the food forest workdays. We also write articles for newsletters and the website as well as for potential publication elsewhere in the community. The Education Committee also runs the annual seed swaps.
This is a continuation of our primer on seed saving. If you did not read it, or need a refresher of the overview, please read part 1.
No, that’s not a typo— like social security, seed security is about thinking ahead. Like food security, seed security is about resilience, local control and local availability.
A drop-off location for your extra seeds is available at the Food Forest Little Library. Tentative future locations include some community gardens, and a couple of porch locations throughout Evanston.
We are asking that after you plant your garden, please donate your unused seeds in their original packet to Edible Evanston. We will ensure the seeds are carefully stored to protect the viability, so you don’t need to worry about that.
Since we have had a few heavy rains, we have to wait for the soil to dry out some before we try to plant into it. Working soil that is wet will compact the structure of the soil (which harms things like root growth and water retention/ drainage). If you can hold a handful of soil, compress it in your hand and it holds together, and then crumbles apart when you tap the ball, your moisture level is just right.
Work Days and Work & Learn Classes are currently cancelled through April.
Individuals may get direction to work on their own by emailing our Food Forest chair at foodforest[at]edibleevanston[dot]org
We have great volunteer opportunities for individuals, families and groups thru regular monthly work days that frequently include learning presentations. (We are happy to arrange other special volunteer days for groups as needed. ) A waiver will be required to participate as a volunteer. No other registration is required, but pre-registration for learn portion encouraged
Look for additional activities on most workdays—educational presentations, sharing of food, stories, song. Including:
Unlike our first 6 principles, principle 7 is the first coming from the top-down perspective of the patterns and relationships that tend to emerge.
David Holmgren’s Summary
David Holmgren’s Summary
In every aspect of nature, from the internal workings of organisms to whole ecosystems, we find the connections between things are as important as the things themselves. Thus the purpose of a functional and self-regulating design is to place elements in such a way that each serves the needs and accepts the products of other elements.
David Holmgren’s Summary
Edible Evanston Work & Learn, June 2019
Tim Sonder, education chair
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