March 21, 2021 Virtual Presentations
9:00 am Beginner Gardening and Seed Saving by Denise O'Reilly, A'Bunadh Seeds
Denise O'Reilly is trained as a Forest Tech through NAIT, is a Board-Certified Arborist, organic farmer, health advocate and public educator. You can find her through the website abunadhseeds.com, hillanddalefarm.wordpress.com and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @abunadhseeds. She is working on putting together short informative videos on Telegram @growandlearn.
10:00 am Intermediate/Advanced Seed Saving by Bob Wildfong, Seeds of Diversity
Bob Wildfong has been saving seeds and teaching about garden biodiversity for over 25 years. He mixes science and storytelling to reveal the secret lives of seeds, plants, and pollinators. Bob has been a member of Seeds of Diversity since 1988, and became the first Executive Director in 2002, after a career in software engineering. He teaches food history at the Waterloo Region Museum, and as a steering committee member of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, helps build the movement to preserve pollinators. He is a past President of the Culinary Historians of Canada, and delights in explaining how we can learn about future food sustainability by remembering past lessons.
11:00 am Urban Farming by Patty Milligan, Northlands Urban Farm
12:00 pm Indoor Gardens by Jonathan Luckhurst, Sea to Sky Botanics
9:00 am Beginner Gardening and Seed Saving by Denise O'Reilly, A'Bunadh Seeds
Denise O'Reilly is trained as a Forest Tech through NAIT, is a Board-Certified Arborist, organic farmer, health advocate and public educator. You can find her through the website abunadhseeds.com, hillanddalefarm.wordpress.com and on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @abunadhseeds. She is working on putting together short informative videos on Telegram @growandlearn.
10:00 am Intermediate/Advanced Seed Saving by Bob Wildfong, Seeds of Diversity
Bob Wildfong has been saving seeds and teaching about garden biodiversity for over 25 years. He mixes science and storytelling to reveal the secret lives of seeds, plants, and pollinators. Bob has been a member of Seeds of Diversity since 1988, and became the first Executive Director in 2002, after a career in software engineering. He teaches food history at the Waterloo Region Museum, and as a steering committee member of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, helps build the movement to preserve pollinators. He is a past President of the Culinary Historians of Canada, and delights in explaining how we can learn about future food sustainability by remembering past lessons.
11:00 am Urban Farming by Patty Milligan, Northlands Urban Farm
12:00 pm Indoor Gardens by Jonathan Luckhurst, Sea to Sky Botanics
