January Member Meeting
18 January, 2022 / 1:00pm / Meeting via Zoom
Presented by: Katie Ruppel of the MV Community Seed Library
18 January, 2022 / 1:00pm / Meeting via Zoom
Presented by: Katie Ruppel of the MV Community Seed Library
Program Description
Katie will introduce us to the MV Community Seed Library located at the West Tisbury Library and will give us the whys and hows of saving seeds for the home garden.
In her presentation we will learn the advantages of adapting seeds to our region based on climate, soil and culture and how to plan for a growing a seed crop. She will offer a few examples of easy and intermediate seed crops. If the presentation is able to be held in person, there will be an interactive component which will allow attendees to save seeds from leeks, lettuce, okra and flowers which they can take home. Information sheets will be available for home reference.
In her presentation we will learn the advantages of adapting seeds to our region based on climate, soil and culture and how to plan for a growing a seed crop. She will offer a few examples of easy and intermediate seed crops. If the presentation is able to be held in person, there will be an interactive component which will allow attendees to save seeds from leeks, lettuce, okra and flowers which they can take home. Information sheets will be available for home reference.
About Katie Ruppel
Katie has been working with the school garden program at Island Grown Initiative for 5 years. During that time, she attended a seed saving training with Native seeds/SEARCH and there began her love for seed saving! She has focused much of her school programming around seeds – life cycles, pollination, crop diversity, breeding and the general abundance seeds bring to the garden. Katie has presented at the Massachusetts Farm to School Conference and at the New England Seeding Sovereignty conference and has been involved with the MV Community Seed Library since day one.