Seed Saving Primer and Historic Antarctic Exploration

Diana Chapin of The Heirloom Garden of Maine will discuss these two very important, and related, topics.  Learn to save your seeds: your plants adapt to your local conditions as they grow.  Save their genetic diversity.  People have saved and propagated seed from plants in their gardens and from wild plants for over ten thousand years. Selling seed commercially only began at the beginning of the 19th Century. 
Diana will offer practical seed saving tips for the home gardener, including information on which plants from which seed may be saved, as well as harvesting and storage advice. Learn how the progressive technology of GMO threatens the ages-old practice of saving seed, how to protect yourself from the hidden health dangers of genetically modified food and how to protect your right to grow life-giving, nutritious food in your own garden.
At PMM's Stephen Phillips Memorial Library, 11 Church Street, Searsport. Tickets in advance $8 members, $10 non-members, or at the door $12 members, $15 non-members. Buy tickets online or call 207-548-2529.

Buzz Scott, founder of OceansWide, will present an illustrated talk on the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration.   Who were these amazing explorers and what were the extraordinary challenges they faced?
Raised on Matinicus Island, Maine, Buzz fished commercially for 17 years in the Gulf of Maine. He spent four years with the United  States Antarctic Program as a marine projects coordinator, sailing on scientific research ships around Antarctica.
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