Upcoming Events
September – MONDAY,
September 9th, 6:30pm – How to Save Seeds
Learn
how to save vegetable, herb and native plants seeds. Seed Talks are community
involved discussions on a particular subject. Come share your own experiences
and learn from others. This is for experienced and non-experienced people and
all those in between.
September –
Wednesday, September 11th, 5pm seed packaging
No
experience needed. Easy to do and fun! Enjoy talking to your
fellow gardeners while helping our Seed Library. Treats provided!
October – Tuesday,
October 8th, 6:30 pm – Putting Your Garden to bed
What
should you do before Old Man Winter comes? Learn how to take care of your
garden while it rests over the winter. What you can do to help make next year’s
garden even better.
WANTED –
SEEDS!!!!
The Seed Library is
down to only 400 packets of seeds. So far in 2019, over 2,200 packets of seeds
have found new homes. Every year we increase the number of packets finding new
homes, so we need lots of seeds for the 2020 season as well as native plants seeds
for this fall.
Please
save your seeds of non-hybrid, open-pollinated beans, peas, lettuce, sweet
peppers, tomatoes, annuals and native plant seeds!
If
you are unable to save seeds from your own harvest, please donate a commercial
packet of appropriate seeds. Here’s a place to get seeds for our Seed Library
or your own garden!
Seed Saver’s Exchange
Sale, Up
to 50% off seeds. Sale goes until 9/7/2019
There
are many seed companies that sell open-pollinated or heirloom seeds. A few are
listed here:
Also
North Circle Seeds and High Mowing Seeds.
EVENTS
YMCA Harvest
Festival, Sunday Sept 22, Noon-3pm
The
White Bear Lake YMCA is having a festival. Food grown locally and prepared by a
local chef is available starting at noon. The Seed Library will be there with
free seeds and a fun game. See the following for more information:
UMN Organic
Open House, Thursday, Sept 19, 2019, 4-6 pm
Stop by for a chance to hear about innovative organic
growing practices and talk with researchers about current organic and
sustainable agriculture research. Growers, students, researchers, and community
members are invited to attend. These events are FREE & open to the
public.
Note: It says it is an open house, but it really is a tour
that starts at 4pm. Though you can come at any time during 4-6pm.
Concurrent with the UMN Organic Open House will be a field
day on summer cover crop mixes and how they can be used to improve soil health
and fertility on your farm. Come learn about a variety of flowering summer
cover crop options and summer cover crop research taking place at the
University of Minnesota. Field day is supported by a Minnesota Department of
Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grant.
Location: Cornercopia Organic Farm on the UMN St. Paul Campus, Intersection of Lindig St & Dudley Ave.
Parking is available in the Gortner Ave Ramp, 1395 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108.
Location: Cornercopia Organic Farm on the UMN St. Paul Campus, Intersection of Lindig St & Dudley Ave.
Parking is available in the Gortner Ave Ramp, 1395 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, MN, 55108.
More info contact:
Anne Pfeiffer
Organic Program Associate
University of MN/Grossman Lab
436 Alderman Hall, 1970 Folwell Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108
apfeiffe@umn.edu
Anne Pfeiffer
Organic Program Associate
University of MN/Grossman Lab
436 Alderman Hall, 1970 Folwell Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108
apfeiffe@umn.edu
Ramsey Master
Gardener Classes
See
details of classes at: www.ramseymastergardeners.com
Contact info for the
Seed Library:
Email:
wblseedlibrary@gmail.com
Blog
site: https://wblseedlibrary.blogspot.com/
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