SAVING OUR SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE

By Annie44, 4 July, 2014

Preserve our seed heritage

Join Tahlee Ministries and Nungra Gardens on 19 July to find out how you can be come involved in:

  • Preserving our seed heritage and diversity of food crops for future generations.
  • Producing local adapted quality seed to suit our climate and conditions.
  • Becoming independent from the cost of commercial seed and genetic modification. 
  • Setting up a Seed Saver’s Exchange – a place where people can come together twice a year and swap seeds, ideas and other planting material.

Tahlee Ministries and Nungra Gardens invite you to Tahlee, the first Settlement point of the Australian Agriculture Company in Port Stephens to view the heritage gardens and watch the film “Our Seeds”.

“Our Seeds” is a one-hour documentary celebrating the keepers of the seed, the farmers and gardeners who preserve and share our nutrient-dense food heritage.  Filmed across eleven countries with twenty tribal groups, this film shows that common threats to food quality and health have local solutions.

  • Date:                          Saturday 19 July 2014
  • Place:                        Tahlee (end of Carrington Road)
  • Time:                        1pm to 4.30pm (Garden Tour 1pm – film screening 2.30pm)
  •  Cost:                        Gold coin donation

RSVP by 17 July to:

John Anderson, Tahlee 0412 311 574 or Shane Martin, Nungra Gardens 0421 228 499

 

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