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!!

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!

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.