Truelove Seeds

Keeping seeds connects us to our past and to our collective future. Join us next Tuesday, May 11th from 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. for our "Local Seed Keeping Initia...tives Panel". This virtual panel will highlight the various ongoing seed keeping initiatives in and around New York City that community gardeners can get involved with. Learn how to connect with larger ongoing efforts to save and share seeds for food and herbs in our region. RSVP for this free panel at: savingseedspart2.eventbrite.com Moderated by Owen Taylor, the founder of Truelove Seeds, which is a farm-based seed company offering culturally important and open pollinated vegetable, herb, and flower seeds. Their seeds are grown by more than 20 small-scale urban and rural farmers committed to community food sovereignty, cultural preservation, and sustainable agriculture. Panelists: Lex Barlowe is a facilitator, organizer, archivist, seed steward, and 4th generation New Yorker. She is a member of Reclaim Seed NYC, Central Brooklyn Food Coop, and the Black Farmer Fund, committed to collective self-determination with seeds, food, land, and community-based economies. Amirah Mitchell has been working in agriculture and the food movement for over a dozen years, initially as a teen farm intern, team leader and board member The Food Project in Boston, MA. She has since worked on urban farms in Massachusetts, Georgia and Pennsylvania, and delivers various agroecology workshops, including agroforestry, soil ecology, urban gardening, seed-keeping and more. Jeremy Teperman is a farmer, composter, facilitator, maker and fellow 4th generation New Yorker, who wants to explore the deep interconnections between the health of the earth and the health of people (both human and non-human). Jeremy is the co-founder of The Compost Collective in Forest Hills, Queens, and currently the farm manager of the UCC Youth Farm / East New York Farms! in East New York, Brooklyn. *To see their full bios, please visit the workshop registration link: savingseedspart2.eventbrite.com. #greenthumbgrows #seedsaving

We did a workshop last week for GreenThumb! Check out our next on Tuesday (link in comments).

For most farmers, inadvertently feeding wild animals with their crop seems like something to avoid. But for the Food Project growing King Phillip Corn last summ...er in Massachusetts, it was an acknowledgement of the greater purpose for growing these corn kernels. Yes, they were trying to grow corn to be shared with gardeners across the country, but they were also working towards reconnecting the seed to the land that it is believed to have originated from: the land of the Wampanoag. Read the full story behind King Phillip Corn, one of the seeds you'll find in this year's Plant a Seed kit: https://slowfoodusa.org/king-philip-corn/ Also make sure to check out the Full Ark of Taste seed collection from Truelove Seeds! #SlowFood #PlantASeed #MashpeeWampanoag #KingPhilipCorn #SeedKeeping

Tomorrow! FarmerJawn Community Supported Agriculture is hosting a seed swap outside of her tea house Grow Sip Repeat in partnership with Truelove Seeds, Philadelphia Seed Exchange, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, PHS : Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, and the Free Library of Philadelphia! Calling all gardeners, seed keepers, and heirloom enthusiasts! Bring your own seed, plant starts and plant cuttings for your favorite cooking greens, beans, grains, root vegetables and c...ulinary herbs to share. Do any of your seeds or plants have interesting stories such as cultural importance or family history? Please share those as well! Information on the practices, traditions and stories of seed saving will be available. Space is limited; first come, first served. Participants are required to adhere to current COVID best practices, including proper mask wearing and social distancing. Sat, April 3, 2021 12:00 PM 2:00 PM Grow.Sip.Repeat. 6730 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19119 Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seed-swap-tickets-145086386287