Category: PROGRAMS + PROJECTS
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DTP UPDATE: Yummy tasting review AND please drop off seeds in May!
What’s in this DTP update? 1) A report from the very excellent tasting event in February! 2) An invitation to our final DTP event for this season (before we gear up again for next season!!) 3) Tips on how to save dwarf tomato seed and links to the background of the dwarf tomato project TASTY TASTY DWARFIES! WELL! Around 18 people who…
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Seed Savers Connect
Each quarter, seed savers from groups across Australia (and now NZ!) join in a national online meeting to connect with each other, talk all things seed saving, share resources, information, ideas and techniques and give each other support and encouragement. Save the date for our next online gathering; WHEN: 5-6:30pm AEST, Sunday 6th AugustWHERE: Online via Zoom Registration link and special…
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Dwarf Tomato Project
The Dwarf Tomato Project is now officially in hibernation We’ll be putting a call out for next season growers soon, so if you’re thinking you’d like to be one now is the time to start looking at your availability and garden space! It’s a wonderful project with lots of support, and you get to learn heaps about growing…
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Native Seed Saving Working Group
In late 2022, the NSWG developed and launched an online survey to gather input from our members to guide future activities and opportunities. Many thanks to those who participated! The report results are now here In a nutshell, this is what the respondents were most interested in (over 70% of responses); Learning how to collect native seed…
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Floriade Plant Sale @Lanyon Homestead
Floriade have had the bright idea to do a plant sale as part of the spring celebrations this year, and we’re going to have a stall WHEN: 10am-2pm, Saturday 23 SeptemberWHERE: Lanyon Homestead, Tharwa Drive, Tharwa
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Annual Spring Seed Swap
Save the date! This is our biggest event of the year as everybody gets ready for spring planting. It’s always a wonderful event, with lots of seed swapping, donating, sharing and of course having a cuppa and a bowl of soup – we will provide WHEN: 1-3pm, Sunday 13 AugustWHERE: Canberra Institute of Technology, Bruce…
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Inaugural In Person Members Meeting
Welcome to our quarterly members meetings! This is a place for our members to come together and do all things seedy WHEN: 2-4pm, Sunday 30 JulyWHERE: The Food Coop Shop, Acton (map location HERE, parking in Toad Hall carpark public area or across Barry Drive in Watson Street is best access)RSVP: Please hit reply to this…
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Seedy Saturdays
Once a month (third Saturday generally – thought July is second!) Canberra Seed Savers hosts fun and relaxed, family-friendly drop-in sessions open to everyone to get seedy, no RSVP necessary, all welcome! You can meet other local growers, help process and save seeds, learn and share your knowledge, have a cuppa and a chat. No experience or…
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Meeting a seed saving legend
Seeds are the very living embodiment of heritage. They are the source of everything we eat (yes, even the carnivore’s meat is from animals that graze on flowering, seeding grasses/grains). Knowledge of saving seed has been foundational to human culture for thousands of years going back to the Fertile Crescent – and maybe even before…
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Seed Passport
Would you like to donate seeds to the Canberra Seed Savers Living Seed Bank? Whether you’re donating or swapping, the information in this seed passport helps Canberra Seed Savers to keep important records for the Seed Bank, to make sure your seed is managed properly and that it is shared with the community while it…