Contribute to seed sovereignty for the whole community while learning about how to garden with a seed-steward mentality! Our work parties are currently a blend of garden tending and informal workshop; we have much to demonstrate and teach this time of the year!
Join us on the very first volunteer day this season. We will be broad forking the beds and planting peas. There are also flats of seeds to sow. Sun, March 26, 2023 @ 10:00 am to 1 pm
RSVP (see below) is preferred, so that we can plan ahead for the day and provide you with any updates in case of changes.
Current Projects Include:
Working up and preparing beds
Transplanting starts
Spreading compost
Seeding beds
Hope you can join us during this part of the season!
Hi Garden Friends, this year’s seed harvest is starting. We harvested snap peas and parsnips. The parsnip seed crop is amazing. Parsnips are delicious steamed, baked or in soup. Parsnip seed has a short shelf life, so we plan on giving it all away next spring.
There is still time to save seeds this summer. The herbs and flowers are flowering and forming seed heads. If you have peas or beans left on the plants, leave a few to dry down. Remember to save seed only from open pollinated varieties; hybrids don’t come true or may be infertile. You may have lettuce or kale that bolted in the heat. That is a great opportunity to save your own seed for next year.
We will be offering two workshops on seed saving again this summer. One will be on processing dry seeds, Follow the link for more information. The other will be on processing wet seeds such as tomatoes, stay tuned date yet to be set.
When you are out shopping, check for seeds on sale. You might want to buy favorites for next spring and store them somewhere dark, cool and dry over the winter. The seed industry is being challenged by erratic weather and convulsions in global trade.
Join others as we plant and tend our 2022 Salish Seed Garden!
Learn gardening skills from experienced plant breeders and seed savers, while growing seeds and resiliency for your community. Come prepared for weather. Please rsvp below. This is so helpful to get our seeds going in the rich soil of Inspiration Farm.
Contribute to seed sovereignty for the whole community while learning about how to garden with a seed-steward mentality! Seed sowing season is already in full swing, and our work parties have transitioned to a blend of garden tending and informal workshops. We have much to demonstrate and teach at this time of the year!
We will work outdoors in small groups. If not vaccinated, please carry a mask to wear when in close quarters or maintain social distancing.
RSVP (see below) is preferred, so that we can plan ahead for the day and provide you with any updates in case of changes.
Early Season Projects Include:
Preparing beds
Making up potting mix
Seeding flats
Transplanting seedlings
Setting up trellises
Hope you can join us during an educational part of the season!
Join others as we plant and tend our 2022 Salish Seed Garden!
Learn gardening skills from experienced plant breeders and seed savers, while growing seeds and resiliency for your community. Come prepared for weather. Please rsvp below. This is so helpful to get our seeds going in the rich soil of Inspiration Farm.
Contribute to seed sovereignty for the whole community while learning about how to garden with a seed-steward mentality! Seed sowing season is already in full swing, and our work parties have transitioned to a blend of garden tending and informal workshops. We have much to demonstrate and teach at this time of the year!
We will work outdoors in small groups. If not vaccinated, please carry a mask to wear when in close quarters or maintain social distancing.
RSVP (see below) is preferred, so that we can plan ahead for the day and provide you with any updates in case of changes.
Early Season Projects Include:
Preparing beds
Making up potting mix
Seeding flats
Transplanting seedlings
Setting up trellises
Hope you can join us during an educational part of the season!
Join others as we plant and tend our 2022 Salish Seed Garden!
Learn gardening skills from experienced plant breeders and seed savers, while growing seeds and resiliency for your community. Come prepared for weather. Please rsvp below. This is so helpful to get our seeds going in the rich soil of Inspiration Farm.
Contribute to seed sovereignty for the whole community while learning about how to garden with a seed-steward mentality! Seed sowing season is already in full swing, and our work parties have transitioned to a blend of garden tending and informal workshops. We have much to demonstrate and teach at this time of the year!
We will work outdoors in small groups. If not vaccinated, please carry a mask to wear when in close quarters or maintain social distancing.
RSVP (see below) is preferred, so that we can plan ahead for the day and provide you with any updates in case of changes.
Early Season Projects Include:
Preparing beds
Making up potting mix
Seeding flats
Transplanting seedlings
Setting up trellises
Hope you can join us during an educational part of the season!
Join others as we plant and tend our 2022 Salish Seed Garden!
Learn gardening skills from experienced plant breeders and seed savers, while growing seeds and resiliency for your community. Come prepared for weather. Please rsvp below. This is so helpful to get our seeds going in the rich soil of Inspiration Farm.
Contribute to seed sovereignty for the whole community while learning about how to garden with a seed-steward mentality! Seed sowing season is already in full swing, and our work parties have transitioned to a blend of garden tending and informal workshops. We have much to demonstrate and teach at this time of the year!
We will work outdoors in small groups. If not vaccinated, please carry a mask to wear when in close quarters or maintain social distancing.
RSVP (see below) is preferred, so that we can plan ahead for the day and provide you with any updates in case of changes.
Early Season Projects Include:
Preparing beds
Making up potting mix
Seeding flats
Transplanting seedlings
Setting up trellises
Hope you can join us during an educational part of the season!
Join others as we plant and tend our 2022 Salish Seed Garden!
Learn gardening skills from experienced plant breeders and seed savers, while growing seeds and resiliency for your community. Come prepared for weather. Please rsvp below. This is so helpful to get our seeds going in the rich soil of Inspiration Farm.
Contribute to seed sovereignty for the whole community while learning about how to garden with a seed-steward mentality! Seed sowing season is already in full swing, and our work parties have transitioned to a blend of garden tending and informal workshops. We have much to demonstrate and teach at this time of the year!
We will work outdoors in small groups. If not vaccinated, please carry a mask to wear when in close quarters or maintain social distancing.
RSVP (see below) is preferred, so that we can plan ahead for the day and provide you with any updates in case of changes.
Early Season Projects Include:
Preparing beds
Making up potting mix
Seeding flats
Transplanting seedlings
Setting up trellises
Hope you can join us during an educational part of the season!
Join others as we plant and tend our 2022 Salish Seed Garden!
Learn gardening skills from experienced plant breeders and seed savers, while growing seeds and resiliency for your community. Come prepared for weather. Please rsvp below. This is so helpful to get our seeds going in the rich soil of Inspiration Farm.
Just wanted to give y’all a little update on the Salish Seed Garden project at Inspiration Farm. We have been having really fun productive days getting our beds prepared and transplants in the ground.
So far we have put in beets, two kinds of onions, peas, lettuce, spinach, favas, and fennel. We have prepared a lot of beds getting them ready for our main transplanting season coming up soon in May.
Starting in May we will be transplanting tomatoes, peppers onions, leeks and direct seating corn beans and some grains into our prepared beds.
We have been having weekly volunteer days for about three or four hours each week. They have been randomly selected based on the weather and what we have to do. There has been about 4-6 people attending each week. In the coming months we will start having regularly scheduled work days at the garden. This will allow people to plan and schedule to join us.
As the plantings get established it would be good to have people that can show up several times a week in small groups to do some maintenance chores like watering, weeding and just overall evaluation and enjoying the garden.
Let us know if you want to be a team leader and bring a small group out to do these things. We could set up several days on the volunteer sign-up list.
Our next volunteer day will be Sunday from 1 to 4 in the afternoon. Subsequent weekend volunteer days will probably be held Saturday mornings as the weather is cooler in the morning and more conducive to transplanting. Let us know if you want to join us we would love to see your smiling faces at Inspiration Farm!
