All About Seeds Workshop - How to Collect, Store and Manage Seeds for Home Gardens

 

EKCRCD is proud to present Ellyn Greene and Nick Boysel from Deep Springs College (deepsprings.edu) in Inyo County near Big Pine, CA for an All About Seeds Workshop at the Maturango Museum on May 9th. They are professional seed growers who have owned, farmed and grown seed for commercial companies and even started their own seed company: SiskiyouSeeds.com, specializing in heirloom, non-gmo and open-pollinated seeds. Their specialty is the harvesting of vegetable seeds for growing your own produce and flower seeds for your garden.

Come and participate in this workshop to learn about: 

• Why save seed? Why is it important?
• How to plan your garden when growing plants to save vegetable seed; different families and species, isolation distances, what seed is worth saving (hybrid vs open-pollinated), spacing needed for plants to grow full life cycle
• How and when to harvest seed; go over how to know when different types of seed are mature
• Seed cleaning; basic seed cleaning techniques (dry vs wet seed)
• Storage and shelf-life; how to best store your seed to maximize viability
• Saving native/flower/perennial seed

EKCRCD plans to host a Seed Exchange event in the Fall, so we are encouraging people to save up their home-grown seed and share your unique, Ridgecrest-adapted seed collections with fellow gardeners! This workshop will be at the Maturango Museum, Winslow room, Free Saturday, May 9th, 1-2:30pm.