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Seed School Lite

If you like growing heirloom veggies, you'll love Seed School. Learn how you can join the numbers of people who are carefully preserving our heirloom vegetable varieties, their wonderful stories, and their precious genetic diversity.
Heirloom vegetables were developed by generations of farmers and home growers, who carefully saved seeds and selected for special attributes in the vegetables.  Some heirlooms are richly flavorful.  Others are beautifully colored.  Many are able to endure special growing conditions such as poor soil, intense heat, or extreme drought.  Preserving this rich diversity is critical for our climate-changed future. 

Industrial seed companies are rapidly wiping these niche varieties out of the marketplace.  It really falls to us -- urban agriculture and home growers -- to preserve heirlooms for future generations.
Taught by Bill McDorman and staff from Native Seed SEARCH in Tucson, the 1-day "Seed School Lite" workshop on February 8 will include lecture, dialog, and hands-on aspects of saving seed from most common vegetable species.
Seed School Lite
Sat Feb 8, 9am-5pm
Class will take place rain or shine.
Tuition $100 includes supplies and light lunch. Bring your own notebook and pen.
Register at http://www.nativeseeds.org/events/seed-school/253-seed-school-la-2
Some scholarships are being offered by the Seed Library of Los Angeles.  For scholarships, contact info@slola.org

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