Many Seedy Saturday events donate their proceeds to Seeds of Diversity Canada (www.seeds.ca), a very worthy not-for-profit organization. One of SoDC's mandates is to promote seed saving, which helps preserve biodiversity in food plants and slows the rate at which heritage and locally adapted varieties are lost due to consolidation and centralization of globalized seed corporations. Here is a link that might be useful: Seeds of Diversity Canada

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If you're in Edmonton you need to put this event on your agenda for next year. Lots of good displays, seed vendors, and speakers. My favourite was the seed exchange table. Even after I snagged a wide variety of seeds there was lots left (volunteering at the exchange table has advantages). One lady brought in multiple packets of at least 6 varieties of tomato seeds. There was an excellent selection of flowers, some interesting vegetables and a small selection of herbs. My DW wants to know where I'm going to put all these plants. And that's leaving out the box of native plants I left alone because I didn't recognize them.

my wife and i will be there i am hoping to bring some apple and pear scions if anyone wants to trade or just wants some scions, stop by and i will give anyone from the forum a couple for free it's usually so hectic around here that I can never make it to the fall happening at Devonian Garden i should have 4 or 5 varieties of apples and some golden spice and ure pear scions