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Another Great Seedy Saturday Season!

Rayna Almas

As the days grow longer and the nights warmer, we say farewell to another Seedy Saturday & Sunday season. Well, not entirely - in some locations, events take place throughout the year or primarily in the fall. But for most of us, these events have come and gone again, and we are ecstatic to share a little bit about what the 2023 season brought. 

This year looked more like 2019 than it did 2022. Why? You guessed it - the pandemic. For the first time since spring 2020, Seedy Saturday events were able to run in-person without exception. And what did this look like? 

It looked like (at least) 115 events across all ten provinces, drawing in thousands upon thousands of people for days of seed and knowledge sharing.

In addition, we added four new video presentations to the 14 created for 2021 and 2022 seasons. Our 2023 Speaker Series presentations are available now - https://seeds.ca/seedy-saturday-series/ 

115 Seedy Saturday and Seedy Sunday Events
22 New events in 2023
2700 Packs of seeds sent to events
20 Volunteers represented us
38 Events used our presentations
325 Members viewed our presentations on YouTube
99 People attended our event planning sessions

 

Jane Seniw of Eastman/Beausejour MB said:

We partnered with the Sandy Saulteaux Healing Centre located just east of Beausejour, Manitoba, and hosted a small but engaging groupp of 20, plus 6 on line some of whom were from close to the US border and NW Ont.

An elder began the day with a Seed Blessing, then we started the seed trading, demos on the easy way to save tomato seeds, and how to find the difference of squash and larger seed with good germination. This was followed by a lunch prepared with all on-site grown vegetable stew, bannock, and wild saskatoons crumble - the berries picked on the same grounds as the Healing Centre.

A truly enjoyable feast!

Then we gathered in a Story Circle to share our own backgrounds, experiences, and related garden, seed, and food stories from every different ethnic vein. It appears we are all family!!

 

Pete Amyoony of Robson Valley BC said:

We had our Robson Valley Seedy Saturday and it was a great success! We usually get around 100 people showing up from all the small communities in the Robson Valley but this year we were swamped with over 150 people from 9:30am to 3:30pm.  We had 14 vendors there selling and trading seeds and offering everything from home canning to local pottery, herbs, knitting, etc. People came from as far away as 150 km so the little school was filled to the brim!

 

Marcia of Calgary said:

Our event was another success!  We had 1193 people come through the door over the duration of the day.  We had a total of 38 tables and 30 vendors (including the very busy seed exchange table).  We brought back our caterer, and we had a speaker in an adjacent building.

 

Patty Morley of Meadow Lake SK sent this photo:

The event was March 19, 2023 and featured 6 vendors, 3 speakers, and lots of seeds! 

 

Bridget of Innisfil ON posted this amazing video:

Innisfil Seedy Saturday recap video - the day in 1 minute

 

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