Program Description
Event Details
This workshop will give participants the skills and confidence to start saving their own seeds. Topics covered include what are seeds, selecting seeds to save, how to store seeds and how to check for viability. The activities include identifying and gathering seeds from a nearby garden, sorting and preparing seeds for storage.
About the presenters:
Laurelee Stocks has been volunteering with the Toronto Zoo for many years and is involved with other community groups. Laurelee has completed the Horticulture Certificate from the University of Guelph and considers herself a lifelong learner. She is passionate about starting plants from seeds, native plants, and growing vegetables. She loves being outside and you will usually find her out in all types of weather walking her dog or working in her garden.
Kyla Paonessa received the Irene Kock Environmental Awareness Award for the Aldonschool Court Pollinator Garden Project, leading a community initiative that turned a grass cul-de-sac island in her neighbourhood into a pollinator garden featuring more than 350 native plant species.