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Please sign the petition and share. Over 300 nonprofit seed libraries in the U.S. might be regulated out of existence due to misapplication of seed laws by several state departments of agriculture.

Save Seed Sharing: Petition - Seed Matters We need your voice as a seed advocate. Since 2012 Seed Matters has provided assistance for community seed solutions, including seed libraries. Seed libraries facilitate the sharing of locally saved seeds among community members, something gardeners have been doing for thousands of years. Unfortunate…

Thanks for this knowledge Urban Farm Hub! Free Plants, seeds and mushrooms tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 19 at noon).

Just got this little life's story from Gil Schieber of Skipley Farm, Thanks for the nice peek into the life of a farmer, educator, and community food organizer! Find more products and updates from Gill at https://seattle.ubrlocal.com/gilschieber

The education of a gardener>farmer:
Be set in the tall grass at age one, have your own garden at eight and play in the family garden, work at a local farm start age 12 or sooner, get a BS in Horticulture, choose the National Farm School. Be a Rodale enthusiast, a Fukuoka friend, feel Wendel Berry's poetry, WWOOF, x country on bike, work on more farms, find the Good Shepherd Center or the like, volunteer, volunteer and volunteer, land pay dirt, work a long time at it e.g. 25 years, and log it, learn and teach urban permaculture-holistic-urban-agriculture, Live in/steward your own place, discover Ballard -land of no trees due to the Nordic liking light, hang out 8-10 years, learn to propagate, cloth the village with thousands of plants from a backyard share-and-sell party, build community, start a ‘Garden Open’ tradition-have a “garage sale” 2x/year, model it after the National Garden Scheme>invite 10000 visitors and have many garden parties/sales; duplicate, inspire; move out to the "country" e.g. Snohomish, start a farm- smack in the middle of an urban hub, meet neighbors, become the axle, call it Skipley, or some other dancing street name, propagate and acquire as many edible plants as possible and grow them well, e.g. 2000 apple trees, 170 varieties, 200 seedless grape vines-15 varieties, 1500 blueberries-15 varieties, every berry you can grow, with a few favorites. Build a nursery, CSA, sell at Farm Markets, do Landscape Design, offer the farm as a coop, trust or simply a model that the community feeds from; regenerate, refine, become a philosopher.