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 When: September 18, 2010
Where: 141 Bolinas Rd. Sustainability Center, in Fairfax
Cost: $20 sliding scale
In this era of total consumerization and corporate control over food, its time to take back our 12,000 year people’s history of seed saving and adapting our own seed varieties for our local micro-climates and soils. Do you know where seeds come from?
They’re probably Monsanto or Cargill even if they’re organic. And the number of varieties is shrinking due to unprofitability and corporate buy-up of smallseed companies.
This interactive and engaging workshop seeks to reverse this trend. We will learn seed saving skills and plant breeding techniques for backyard gardeners.
We will discuss:
• open-pollinated vs. hybrid vs. heirloom
• seed collecting
• seed processing
• seed storage, local seed savers, and more
Bring your ideas, questions, suggestions, experience, your saved seeds, and we’ll free ourselves and the plants from corporate-imposed scarcity.
Click on read more link below to learn more about the instructor.
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Sustainable Fairfax is one of the first groups in Marin to pioneer sustainability, with a legacy of educating the town council, supporting the community,
providing services to the town, and conducting educational events since
1999. Through our work, we’ve come to realize that sustainability
is not just an end goal, but also an approach to decision making. Learn more about 
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