Know your brassica species

I’m about to head up to the CAPÉ Rendez-vous automnal 2018 for a day on seed production. 

I’ll be giving a talk on brassica seed production.

Below is the core chart of the presentation.

Did you know that turnips and rutabaga are not the same vegetable? What!

(And thanks to everybody who has been telling me what they would like to read on Going to Seed! Keep sending your requests.)

What do you want to read on Going to Seed?

It’s been awhile since Going to Seed has been really hopping. My last post was just about 14 months ago. Wow, time flies.

I’m ready to jump back in and I hope you’re ready to start reading again!

I could use some help though. I’m feeling a bit rusty and not sure what topics to start writing about first. Is it cleaning seed? Or is it crop planning? Or how to run a small farm? Or why I think Star Wars episode 8 the Last Jedi is the third best Star Wars movie in the franchise? Or what is going on in that pepper picture? Or why is radicchio the best vegetable ever?

What do you want to read about?

I would be so happy, if you could write what you want to read about in the comments to this post.

Thanks!

 

Small Farm Academy podcast about Seed Racks

This summer, Luke Callahan invited me on to Small Farm Academy and we chatted about seeds. A good chunk of the interview was about how we run our seed rack program.

You can listen find more detail about the episode by clicking here!

Hope you’re having a great season!

 

 

ACORN hosting 2016 ECOSGN seed conference

The third biennial ECOSGN (Eastern Canadian Organic Seed Growers Network) Seed Conference is coming!

This year ECOSGN has teamed up with ACORN (the Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network) to have the ECOSGN conference at the ACORN fall conference.

The Details

Where: Moncton, NB at the Delta Beauséjour

When: November 28–30, 2016

How to register: Click here to register before November 18

This is a bilingual event with sessions in English translated to French and sessions in French translated in English

Seedy Sessions

Pre-conference seed kick-off

Day 1 Seed Perspective Plenary

Day 1 sessions

I’ll be speaking on day 1 about Cover Crops & Rotations in Seed Production.

Day 2 sessions

Day 3 seed swap

 

The Rest of The Conference Will Also Be Awesome

In addition to the the seed stream, there are 3 other farming streams on Day 1 & 2. And on day 3, though there are no seed streams (beyond a seed swap) there are still 4 farming streams. Here’s the program for the whole ACORN conference

Emily will also be speaking at the conference in the following sessions: Post Harvest Handling at Tourne-sol Farm & Opening Plenary: The Changing Face of Farming

Go And Register!

You can register here The deadline to register is November 18.

 

Organic Seed Growers Conference Webinars

Below is the official information for 6 webinars broadcast from OSA’s Organic Seed Growers Conference.

I am one of the speakers in Seed Economics: How to Make Growing and Selling Seed More Profitable.

If you’re interested in listening, make sure to register for the webinars!

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The Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) is hosting their 8th biennial Organic Seed Growers Conference in Corvallis Program from February 4 – 6, 2016. While there is a great contingency of BC and Canadian growers attending the 2016 conference not everybody can make the trip.

We are happy to announce that OSA, in partnership with eOrganic, will be offering a number of the conference workshops via webinar!

You can register for the webinars here.

Below is a quick list of the webinar topics and times and you can find a more detailed list here.

• Seed Economics: How to Make Growing and Selling Seed More Profitable
  • Friday, February 5th, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Pacific
• Seed Equipment: On-farm Innovations
  • Friday, February 5th, 1:30 – 3:00 PM Pacific
• Vegetable Breeding Research Updates
  • Friday, February 5th, 3:30 – 5:00 PM Pacific
• Organic Cover Crop Seed Production
  • Saturday, February 6th, 9:00 – 10:30 AM Pacific
• Vegetable Seed Production: Scaling up
  • Saturday, February 6th, 1:30 – 3:00 PM Pacific
• Managing Seed Borne Disease: Brassica Black Leg and Implications for Organic Seed Producers and Industry
  • Saturday, February 6th, 3:30 – 5:00 PM Pacific

Talking Seeds On Permaculture Voices Podcast

In December I was a guest on the Permaculture Voices podcast.

I spoke with Diego Footer about

• the profitability of growing seeds for sale,
• differences between growing seed crops and market vegetable crops,
• and how much space a seed crop actually takes.

You can listen to the podcast here.

This podcast is a lead up to one of the workshops I’ll be giving at Permaculture Voices 3 this spring. At that event I’ll also run a workshop about crop planning for farm profitability.

Seed Webinar today

I’m excited to be part of a seed webinar this afternoon at 4PM Eastern.  I’ll be talking about how we approach selecting seed plants on our farm. I’ve got some pictures lined up!

 

If you’re interested in listening in all the details are below. (Or you can just register here: http://rsvp.momentumconferencing.com/RSVP/event/1243) There is no fee to participate.

 

 

“The People’s Choice” Webinar: Seed Questions across Canada!

Hosted by: The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, FROM 4:00 PM TO 5:30 PM ET

Designed according to feedback collected from across Canada, the webinar will start with a presentation on “On-farm Roguing, Selection, and Adaptation” by Dan Brisebois of Tourne-Sol Farm (QC). Part 2 of the webinar will feature a seed panel of experts from across the country who will address YOUR most important questions about seed. The panel will speak to both pre-submitted questions and live questions from webinar participants. Please come prepared to engage!

You can get more info and register here: http://rsvp.momentumconferencing.com/RSVP/event/1243