Sponsored by Powell River Farmers' Institute

Contact: Wendy Devlin 483-9268

Where:  Community Living Place 6831 Artaban, Cranberry

When:   Saturday March 8, 2008 10:00 - 3:00

Cost:     $1; children free

SEEDY SATURDAY Annual Seed Exchange and Garden Fair; swap or buy seeds and plants grown in Powell River. Refreshments, gardening workshops, seed-saving and community information booths.

The doors of Community Living Place in Cranberry on Artaban Street open at 10 a.m. for the community seed exchange, information tables and workshops. There are refreshments for sale all day and more seats in the SEEDY LOUNGE to sit, eat, and socialize.  There will be a kid's area as usual and courtyard area swap for plant, tuber, root, cuttings etc.

SEEDY SATURDAY work-shop schedule runs as follows:

10:15-11:00 a.m. Worm Composting

Master Composter, Carol Engram demostrates an easy in-home worm composter using a tote bin, that will soon be supplying your garden with quality fertilizer

11:15-12:00 p.m. Introduction to Permaculture

Patches from demonstration and production Nimh Farm, south of town, explains the principles of permaculture and how to incorporate permaculture techniques into your garden and home landscape.

12:15-1:00 p.m. Vegetable garden planning for beginners

Harvest food gardening tips and practices from experienced Wildwood market gardener, Wendy Devlin.  

1:15-2:00 p.m. Seed Starting for Success

Kevin Wilson, from Fiddler's Farm, a micro farm in Cranberry, demonstrates how to take seeds just obtained from SEEDY SATURDAY and get them growing.   Includes practical information for starting early indoors, outdoor sowing and 'winter sowing' for year-round harvesting from your garden.

2:15-3:00 p.m. Blue Mason (Orchard) Bees

Bill Dohlman 'WILLY BEE' from the Open Air Market talks about mason bees, and how they can help pollinate your garden.  Workshop inludes how to make a mason-bee house to attract these wild pollinators to your plants and especially the fruit trees.

In addition to the seed exchange, you can bring seeds, plants and bulbs (corms, tubers etc) to trade, and you

can trade for them to take away. You cannot buy plants or bulbs, only trade for them.  As this is an expanded part to the event, please brief yourself if you wish to participate.  Hope to see you there!  

Trading Plants

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There are four size categories for plants. For each plant you bring, you get a certain number of credits (each credit as if you'd brought a package of

seeds) according to its size. Similarly, if you take a plant, it "costs" you a certain number of credits.

Tiny - 1 seed packet credit - coded blue

Plants in pots less than 3 1/2" across, rooted cuttings, clumps less than 3 1/2" across.

Small - 2 seed packet credits - coded yellow

Plants in pots 3 1/2" - 4" across, clumps 3 1/2" - 4" across

Medium - 3 seed packet credits - coded red

Plants in pots larger than 4" but less than 1 gallon, clumps of equivalent size.

Large - 4 seed packet credits - coded green

Anything in a 1 gallon or larger pot: clumps of equivalent size.

Trading bulbs

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(Includes corms and tubers)

1 bulb any size = 1 seed packet credit

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