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Tag: Native Seeds

  • Northeast Regional Seed Club

    Join the Northeast Regional Seed Club with Cape Ann Gardens using the link HERE and be a part of the local seed movement! You’ll receive 6 months of seeds (up to five packets every two months) featuring regionally grown flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruits adapted for the northeastern U.S. $85 cost.

    Your membership will provide critical start-up funds to support grower contributions to the 2025 list of offerings and seed contracts for the 2026 catalog. Your support is invaluable for developing this network of small-scale seed producers and launching a seed company rooted in ethical, regional seed stewardship.

    Each seed variety has been grown and tested by experienced seed savers committed to ethical, regionally focused seed production. Our club members play a crucial role in this process—not just as recipients of seeds, but as active participants in the ongoing adaptation of plants to the Northeast’s evolving climate. This initiative strengthens a regional seed network, sustains small-scale producers, and advances a future where seed sovereignty is the norm, not the exception.

  • Saturday, December 7, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – Native Seed Sowing Workshop

    Join Erin Hammes, Plant Records and Production Horticulturist at Native Plant Trust on December 7 from 1 – 2:30 for this native seed sowing workshop. Learn about our native seeds and then get your hands in the soil to sow some seeds that you can take home. The class will be held at Long Hill in Beverly, a Trustees of Reservations property. $26 for NPT members, $30 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/native-seed-sowing-workshop-12072024/

  • Wednesday, November 2 & Thursday, November 3, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Need for Seed: A Strategy for the Northeast, Online

    This two-day Native Plants Trust symposium on November 2 and 3 focuses on establishing a groundbreaking network of native seed users and producers in New England, including government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Speakers (to be announced) from other parts of the country will share success factors in establishing a native seed network and discuss strategy, logistics, and tasks, from seed collection and storage to the uses of seed in restoration and nursery cultivation. NPT members $120, $144 nonmembers. Register and learn more details at http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/symposium-need-seed-strategy-northeast/

  • Tuesday, March 3, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – Dr. Vandana Shiva

    Please join The Harvard Graduate School of Design on March 3 at 6:30 pm in Gund Hall in Cambridge for the 2020 International Womxn’s Day Lecture delivered by Dr. Vandana Shiva. The lecture is free and open to the public.

    Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most significant ecological and social issues of our times, in close partnership with local communities and social movements. In 1991, she founded Navdanya, a national movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially native seed, the promotion of organic farming and fair trade. In 2004 she started Bija Vidyapeeth, an international college for sustainable living in Doon Valley in collaboration with Schumacher College, U.K.Dr. Shiva combines the sharp intellectual enquiry with courageous activism. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an environmental “hero” in 2003 and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia. Forbes magazine in November 2010 has identified Dr. Vandana Shiva as one of the top Seven most Powerful Women on the Globe. Dr. Shiva has received honorary Doctorates from University of Paris, University of Western Ontario, University of Oslo and Connecticut College, University of Guelph.Among her many awards are the Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood Award, 1993), Order of the Golden Ark, Global 500 Award of UN and Earth Day International Award. Lennon ONO grant for peace award by Yoko Ono in 2009, Sydney Peace Prize in 2010, Doshi Bridgebuilder Award, Calgary Peace Prize and Thomas Merton Award in the year 2011,the Fukuoka Award and The Prism of Reason Award in 2012, the Grifone d’Argento prize 2016 and The MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity 2016, Veerangana Award 2018, The Sanctuary Wildlife Award 2018 and International Environment Summit & Award 2018.

    This event is co-sponsored by Womxn in Design and is organized as part of the 2020 International Womxn’s Day activities taking place from March 2 – 6, 2020 at the GSD.

    Anyone requiring accessibility accommodations should contact the events office at (617) 496-2414 or events@gsd.harvard.edu.

  • Saturday, October 26, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – Collecting and Sowing Native Seeds

    Heather McCargo, Founder of the Wild Seed Project, will speak on October 26 at 10:30 am at Camp Cedar Hill, 241 Forest Street in Waltham, on Collecting and Sowing Native Seeds, a lecture sponsored by Grow Native Massachusetts. $52 for Grow Native members, $62 for nonmembers. Register at www.grownativemass.org.

    Using native plants grown from seed helps us create resilient landscapes that are rich in genetic diversity. This class will focus on essential principles for propagating herbaceous wildflowers, woody plants, and ferns—and give us hands-on practice with techniques to do so successfully. Heather McCargo emphasizes the benefits of using natural processes to do much of the work, such as sowing seed outside in the fall and taking advantage of the seasonal weather patterns that each species needs to germinate. She will discuss ecologically responsible collection practices and timing; proper seed handling and storage; and describe simple methods for setting up an outdoor propagation area. The program will also recommend books and other resources for native plant propagation, and give you practice sowing seeds in pots, which you will take home at the end of the program.

    Heather McCargo is the founder and executive director of Wild Seed Project, a non-profit organization based in Maine. She is an educator with 30 years of expertise in plant propagation, landscape design, and conservation. Heather was the head propagator at Garden in the Woods during the 1990s, and has an M.A. from the Conway School of Landscape Design.

    Heather McCargo, executive director at the Wild Seed Project

  • Sunday, January 12 – Friday, January 17 – Seed School

    Join Bill McDorman (NS/S Executive Director), Joy Hought, MSc (Director of National Seed School), Hampshire College alum Rowen White (co-founder of Sierra Seed Cooperative) and special guests for a 6-day Seed School session at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Seed School is for gardeners, farmers, herbalists, nurseries, CSAs, non-profits, government agencies and everyone concerned with regional, sustainable and diverse agriculture. Click here to learn more about this groundbreaking course.

    Native Seeds/SEARCH is proud to partner with Hampshire College, Massachusetts for its January Term program, January 12th through the 17th. College credit will be available and 12 Hampshire College students will get priority placement for this Seed School session.

    January 12-17, 2014
    Hampshire College
    Amherst, MA

    Tuition: $700
    Deposit to reserve a spot: $200
    Payment can  be made by mailing a check payable to Native Seeds/SEARCH, 3584 E. River Road, Tucson AZ 85718. Indicate “Seed School – January 2014” on your check and include contact information and phone number. For complete information, and to complete your registration following payment, visit http://www.nativeseeds.org/index.php?option=com_rsform&formId=3.

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