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TREASURE HUNT: At Wildwood's Glade Farm (above) and other farm gates, seed libraries such as this one on Hammond Street (below) and elsewhere, you can find top-notch seeds and plants this month.
No Seedy Saturday 2021
Instead, March is seedy every day BY PIETA WOOLLEY
9am - 5pm
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wo days before Seedy Saturday 2020, everything was ready for the annual event. The Recreation Complex was ready to host the seed trade, vendors, education seminars, and food booths. Over that week, however, it had become incresingly clear to event organizer Ellen DeCasmaker that the unthinkable was happening: an infectious disease, the likes of which hadn't been seen in decades, was about to storm Canada. Sure enough, that Thursday, the Provicinal Health Officer banned indoor gatherings. Seedy Saturday was cancelled. "Now there’s no question at all," said Ellen on the phone from her home on Zilinsky Road. "There will be no in-person Seedy Saturday this year, unless a miracle happens. Hundreds of people going to that one hall and foyer at the same time? It would be one huge super-spreader event." Trust seed enthusiasts, though, to rise to the occasion of this gardening-obsessed pandemic era. There may be no central event this year, but March will be very seedy indeed. On Facebook, the Seed Traders of Powell River are vigorously trading and selling seeds. This is Seedy Saturday 2021's online presence (though you can also check out Seedy Saturday Powell River for more). At press time, melons, tomatoes, poppies, beans and much more were being swapped by the 150-or-so members. It is a private group, but anyone can apply to join. Watch for online workshops and exhibitors pages throughout the month. Seedy Saturday also has a presence at the Winter Market at the Community Resource Centre on Joyce Avenue on Saturday mornings from 10 to noon
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Newly expanded selection means we are now
more than Fruit & Veg
�� Bulk foods �� Baking supplies �� Gourmet foods �� Plant-based �� Gluten free �� World foods �� Fresh squeezed juice March 6 and 13. Free seed libraries have been popping up around Powell River, as a COVID project. One is on Hammond Street, and one is at the Children's Centre in Cranberry. Both were made with funds from the Neighbourhood Small Grants program, as coordinated by Lesley Thorsell. Tracy Pihl built them; Lucas North donated the windows, and Meryl Thorsell lettered them "Seeds and Reads." Trade or take seeds – they're free.
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