Seedy Saturday on a Sunday

Congratulations to all who contributed to making Seedy Saturday a big success. We made $328.45 this year! Lots of people helped with the work and a big thank you to everyone who helped pack seed packets, opened their homes for us to plan the work, helped with the set-up on the day, or just sent good vibes all around. Thanks Indra, Andrea and Samanthia, Kevin, Nancy, Lindsay K., Yves, Dahlia, Edward and Pam, Talia, Meg, Daniella and Kipp and the rest of the community garden group and their families for their support!

Also a BIG CONGRATS to our ever-energetic garden leader Susan, who provides smiles and overall leadership to make the work pleasant and successful. Did we tell you that our seed list this year (and all seeds came from our very own garden) ranged from chives to the aptly named rat-tail radish!

Don’t forget that because we donated seeds to the TCGN we were able to pick up some good seeds for the garden. We were able to get twenty seed packets! Some of those seeds included the root vegetables that we can use for the sharing garden. But there are also Native Plants and Flower seeds, and some international seeds, there is enough of most of them to share with all the gardeners.

The big dose of sunshine and clear skies no doubt helped bring in the thousands of visitors that passed through the Artscape Wychwood Barns.

There were workshops throughout the afternoon on topics like food justice, native plants, early seed starting, bee-keeping and organic gardening. The Stop Community Food Centre also had a big presence at the Barns and brought their culinary skills to share with the visitors.

Nancy

The venue, The Artscape Wychwood Barns is great, and has been the home of the Seedy Saturday event for the past two years. Before that, it was held in the gym of the Scadding Court Community Centre.

Last year, it felt quite crowded - 2000 people in four hours! This year, it opened to the public earlier and the extra hours made it much more enjoyable for us as well as the 2400 people that visited the event.

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The money that the Perth Dupont community Garden raised was made from donations - for seeds, information and not to forget Susan's 2 very good fund-raising ideas - the bags and the gloves. We feel it is very important for the "outside" world to understand that this was stricktly PWYC/donations.

Andrea