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[[Seedy Sunday]] or Seedy Saturday refers to events in which people get together to swap [[seed]]s, especially [[Heirloom plant|heirloom]] varieties, or varieties that have been in the family for years if not several generations. |
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The idea of conserving heritage varieties of crops was in it’s infancy in Canada in 1989. It was very difficult to find heritage varieties of vegetables, fruits, flowers and grains. They were non existent in seed catalogues. |
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Canada's heritage seed program had been running for four years under the guidance of Heather Apple and COG (Canadian Organic Growers). |
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[http://www.grassrootsolutions.com Sharon Rempel] was a B.C. director of the fledgling Heritage Seed Program and wanted to find a way to bring a large number of people together to share seeds and stories. On February 14, 1989 Sharon designed and hosted Canada’s first Seedy Saturday. The first participants included dozens of small seed companies selling 'open pollinated' seeds; USC Canada's Vancouver office; Health Action Network; living history sites including 'The Grist Mill at Keremeos'. Over 500 people came to hear talks about seeds, swap and buy seeds and share their stories about their favorite plants. The event was held at The VanDusen Botanical Gardens in Vancouver, B.C.. The seeds sold had to be ‘open pollinated’ and not hybrids. People swapped their stories and seeds at the ‘Swap Table’ and many of these varieties became recommercialized through the small seed companies. |
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Sharon also invited the Vancouver “Nyala” Ethiopian restaurant to the event to provide refreshments. Ethiopia is considered the Center of Diversity globally for bread wheat. USC was running a project called ‘Seeds of Survival’ in Ethiopia; they were training people to do ‘on farm’ variety conservation and 'on farm' plant breeding. |
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The event is now in over sixty communities across Canada. The [http://www.seeds.ca/ev/evpage.php?lang=EN&p=5 events] are listed on the [http://www.seeds.ca Seeds of Diversity] website. |
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