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  • Seed Savers Exchange Saving and Sharing Seeds Contest

    Seed Savers Exchange is finishing up a free resource for gardeners to teach folks how to save and share seeds. Though the text is pretty well set, they are reaching out to friends and followers for the graphics.

    To that end, they’re looking for original illustrations – instructional or inspirational – that encourage seed saving, seed sharing and seed sowing. Selected submissions will be featured in a new resource, and artists will be awarded SSE memberships, rare seeds, or other prizes.

    Details:

    Content: Original illustration (no photographs, please, but diverse styles and media encouraged) instructing or inspiring others to save and share vegetable seeds. (Think halved tomato fruits, onion flowers, bolting lettuce, cabbage flowers, fermenting cucumber pulp, isolation cages, hand-made seed packets, seed swaps, etc.)

    Submission: All entries should be sent via email or wetransfer.com to grant@seedsavers.org with the subject SEED ART before July 1, 2014. Submissions must be high quality, RGB color mode, JPEG format, and 72dpi. Digital files must be smaller than 5MB. Artists retain all rights to their works, but allow SSE to use in Saving and Sharing Seeds and also display via social media as part of the contest.

    Use: Selected submissions will be featured in Saving and Sharing Seeds, a free resource made available on our website and sent to seed libraries, seed swaps, and gardener gatherings across the country. Saving and Sharing Seeds will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, and will be made available Fall 2014. Estimated distribution is 25,000. All submissions will be displayed online in a gallery at exchange.seedsavers.org, and many will be displayed via social media. Work title and artist name will be included with each image in the book (if selected) and on social media galleries. Selected artists and descriptions of their piece will also appear in the publication as a separate section.

    Selection Process: All submissions will be reviewed by Seed Savers Exchange staff and local artists. Art will be selected on the basis of general quality as well as suitability for this publication. Requirements of Selected Artists: SSE staff will notify selected artists before July 31. Artists will be asked to provide some specific written information about their selected illustration(s) for inclusion in the publication. Selected artists will also be required to submit a 9” x 12” RAW file (RGB format, 300dpi) for the work to be published. For a list of selected artists, visit exchange.seedsavers.org/artists after August 1, 2014.

  • Wednesday, June 19 – Deadline for Entries to Nutrients for All Competition

    Ashoka’s Nutrients for All and Ashoka Changemakers are seeking your innovative solutions that will ensure the availability of nutrients for healthy, natural ecosystems, farms, food, and people. Enter before the deadline on June 19, 2013 for a chance to win cash prizes totaling US $45,000. The environment, farms, food, and our health and prosperity are inextricably linked by nutrients. The nutrient value chain—the generation and flow of nutrients from the environment to soils, farms, food, and people—creates wellness and vitality for people and the planet.

    Healthy environments, by generating and cycling essential nutrients, directly impact the quality and productivity of our agricultural systems. Nutrient-rich agriculture is driven by empowered farmers who manage soils and nutrient cycles intelligently and thereby produce full-nourishment foods. Full-nourishment foods provide bioavailable nutrients that are critical to childhood development, disease resistance, and human performance and vitality. Fully nourished human beings create healthy and prosperous societies and economies.

    However, the nutrient value chain is broken. Degraded ecosystems cannot generate and cycle nutrients, nor provide the carbon sequestration, clean water, and biodiversity that our food systems depend on. Unsustainable agricultural practices are accelerating the degradation of the environment, loss of croplands, and reduction in nutrient content of our food. Nutrient-rich foods have also become less accessible to people because of their high cost and processing techniques that prioritize shelf-life and profit margins over nutrient content. Finally, nutrient-related illnesses such as stunting of growth in childhood, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and a host of infectious diseases are debilitating societies and economies around the world.

    We need solutions that help strengthen the nutrient value chain and ensure that nutrients are available for healthy, natural ecosystems, farms, food, and people. To discover these solutions, Ashoka’s Nutrients for All and Ashoka Changemakers have launched a new competition: Nutrients for All: Vitality for People and the Planet. We are seeking solutions related to:

    Healthy environment (natural ecosystems, soils)
    Nutrient-rich farming (agricultural techniques, supporting farmers)
    Full-nourishment foods (processing, distribution, markets)
    Wellness and vitality (human nutrition, health systems, consumer awareness)

    For complete information visit www.changemakers.com/nutrientsforall/competition.

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  • Garden Design 2010 Green Awards – Call For Entries

    The second annual awards program sponsored by Garden Design magazine reveals the exciting moment when great design meets ecological responsibility.  Smart water and energy use, repurposing, recyclables, natives and organics, and other earth friendly innovations will be recognized.  Designers and companies owning designs are eligible to enter.  Entries must highlight key “green” components and should not have previously appeared in national publication.  Your entry should include a completed entry form (print at www.gdgreenawards.com), ten uploaded images with captions showing all parts of the completed project, and a single paragraph summary of the project.  There is a $50 fee per entry.  Winners will be published in the January/February 2011 issue of Garden Design.  Deadline for entry is May 1, 2010.

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  • Landslide 2010 – Every Tree Tells a Story

    Sentinel and specimen trees, allees and boulevards, hedgerows and urban forests – they surround us and are living reminders of our heritage.  In order to honor and help preserve our country’s heritage of trees, The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Garden Design Magazine are teaming up with The Davey Tree Expert Company for the 2010 Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story.

    Since its inception in 2003, the landslide initiative has spotlighted more than 150 significant at-risk parks, gardens, horticultural features, and working landscapes.  The goal of Landslide is to draw immediate and lasting attention to these threatened landscapes and unique features, revealing the value of everyday places and encouraging informed community-based stewardship decisions. Through web features, traveling exhibits, and print publications, Landslide reveals the value of these forgotten places.

    An example of an at- risk garden selected by Landslide is The Italian Garden designed by Winthrop Ames at Queset, in North Easton, Massachusetts (pictured below circa 1920). Abandoned for generations, this ruined garden is a silent testament to Edwardian era bon vivants and the Golden Age of American gardens,   This year’s theme calls attention to the places that embody our shared landscape heritage.  Nominate or learn more by visiting www.tclf.org/landslide.  Deadline for nominations is March 31, 2010.

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