A Really Seedy Sunday

by Karlee Bertola

PermacultureWest is excited to bring you another series of online workshops for 2023 starting this January. In collaboration with some of our permaculture educators in WA, we hope to bring you more webinars at your convenience for a discounted rate to encourage everyone to put their skills and knowledge into immediate action.

This first workshop for 2023 " A REALLY SEEDY SUNDAY" presented by Karlee Bertola, follows last year's Seedy Sunday session on Basic Seed Saving.

Seed Saving is a very important skill we can and should all learn to have more control of our local food systems and make sure we continue to grow, share and enjoy the plants that may no longer be commercially available in the years to come. It can be involved and advanced or as simple as you want it to be. It is best to learn from other passionate and experienced seed savers who have been doing more advanced techniques for saving seeds.

In this webinar, Karlee will go really seedy and is going to teach us a more advanced level of Seed saving.

This zoom session covers topics and techniques on:

Open-pollinated, heirloom and F1 seeds - what does it all mean?
Basic genetics for seed saving
Main vegetable families and their seed saving requirements
Isolation techniques to get pure seed
Some of her favourite varieties to grow!
Q & A time for any seedy questions.

PermacultureWest members' tickets are discounted to $5 and non-members are $10. To become a member ($10 for unwaged and $30 waged) and avail of the discounted ticket for the next series of webinars and lectures, here is the PermacultureWest website link for Memberships.

About Karlee:

My partner and I own King River Avocadoes. I lecture in organic horticulture at South Regional TAFE. I Studied at UWA completing a Bachelor of Science in Restoration Ecology, afterwards working in Sustainable agriculture at the Gillami centre in Cranbrook and then at the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD), setting up horticultural trial sites and benchmarking properties for Aboriginal Landholders. While at DPIRD I completed a Diploma of horticulture and Certificate IV in Training and Assessment, moving on to teach at South Regional TAFE.

I have an extreme passion for growing food and sharing knowledge. I have become a serious seed saver, saving my own seed for the last 10 years. I did my Permaculture Design Certificate at FairHarvest in Margaret River (highly recommended) and completed my Certificate IV in Permaculture in 2020.

And in my spare time, I am an artist, which isn’t much these days.

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