Saving and sharing seeds can help you become more self-sufficient and independent, can help you build meaningful relationships with your friends and neighbors, and will empower you to participate in building a stronger and more secure food system, by growing heritage seeds and endangered plants.
Planting seeds and watching them grow is fun for all ages. (Contributed)We encourage all local gardeners to participate in local seed sharing events by coming to take seeds from others and if possible offering seeds they’ve saved from their own gardens. We want to teach and advise about proper seed saving for germination and success. There will be scions (grafting branches for fruit trees) at some events.
Participate
Take home some seeds you want to plant this year. Show up and bring any seeds you are not going to plant out, and give them to someone else. Call your local Grange to participate in the upcoming exchanges by sharing seeds, with table space to display.“Our mission is to conserve and promote America’s endangered and culturally diverse garden and food crops for future generations, and to share heritage, open pollinated heirloom seeds and plants with all.”
You can place an order for free seeds with Victory gardens, and they will mail them directly to your door/mailbox/pobox- at www.victorygardensforpeace.com/access-seed-bank (passcode: saveseeds).
They also have free gardening guides and how-to videos, and more gardening events are listed at www.victorygardensforpeace.com.
Event schedule
There will be seed saving, gardening and transplanting demos at some of these events.
Feb. 1 and 8: Mendocino Coast Botanic Gardens Farmhouse. Seed Cleaning Jamboree – 10-3 (take locally adapted seeds home)
Sunday, Feb. 23 – Willits, Little Lake Grange – 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (pancake breakfast)
Saturday, March 1 – Anderson Valley Grange – Abundance Fair 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – incudes Seed & Scion Exchange. Note the Seed and Scion Exchange in Anderson Valley on 3/1/25 is the effort of many locals. It is sponsored by Cloud Forest Institute and Anderson Valley Foodshed. The AV Grange is holding it at 9800 Hwy 128, Philo.
Further information, including a list of speakers and classes, plus their wishes around seed, scion, and rootstock exchanges are posted on their website at www.avfoodshed.com/winter-abundance-fair
Lots going on all day including grafting class & tree propagation, farm talk, saving seeds, plus scion and seed giveaway.
Friday March 14 – Covelo: Round Valley Library 1-3 p.m. Seed Giveaway/Planting Party
The Seed Library at the Round Valley Public Library in Covelo (23925 Howard St.) will be hosting a seed library work party Feb. 15; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. We’ll be hosting planting parties and seed giveaways second Fridays in the spring and summer: March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, and probably July 11; 1 to 3 p.m. Call the library at 707-983-6736 for further information if you have questions.
Saturday, March 15 at Fort Bragg Library 2- 4 p.m.
Nourishing Seeds (was Mendo SeedMobile) has seeds and is making educational material to provide to Mendo seed libraries at many locations. Also – a “grow out” kit for certain seeds you can take, with a promise to grow them out and share some back. Go to a Mendo library for local seeds saved by Nourishing Seeds.
Locations listed are co-sponsored by the Mendocino-Lake County Pomona Grange, your local Grange and your local library.
Here are a few other food/gardening events which are coming up that will feed your garden dreams!
Mendocino College Spring Semester AGR181 Sustainable Vegetable Production Course for all ages and experience levels, each Friday from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Fort Bragg Campus running Jan. 26-May 24.
Anderson Valley Seed and Scion Exchange Feb. 24 at the Philo Grange. The Seed and Scion Exchange is back! Come and swap seeds, graft fruit trees and learn from neighbors, farmers and experts in propagation. For more information, or to volunteer, contact Lama, aforestperson@gmail.com
Annual Victory Gardens for Peace Spring Tour, May 4, 2024.
Ecology Actions Spring 4-Day Workshop with John Jeavons and Matt Drewno.
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