**Attend the Introductory workshop on Tuesday, May 13th 7-8:30PM OR Saturday, April 26th**

Always wanted to learn how to Save Seeds? Love Saving Seeds and want to get involved in a bigger way? See the importance of participation in our food system? Join the cadre of local citizen seeds savers! Together we will learn how to grow and save seeds from a variety of vegetable, flower, and herb plants. At the end of the season we'll come together to clean the seeds we've harvested, share them, and celebrate.

The seeds that Citizens Seeds Savers produces will also be used for planting the MAYDAY! Gardens next year. MAYDAY! Gardens is a program that gives full gardens of vegetable starts to participants, and also includes videos and other information about growing food plants successfully.

~part of our Heritage Skills Workshop Series~

Learn the basics about Seed Saving with a few workshops over the season presented by Farmers Laura Garber and Henry Wuehsche. Attend either May 13th 6-7:30 or the April 26 presentation as part of 'Eat Like a Local, Learn from a Farmer'; both presentations are the same introduction to the series. Additional workshop dates/times will be announced as the season progresses.
Grow one or more vegetable plants for seed this summer. Learn and do the whole process: from seed to seed!
We'll grow the transplants, plant the stecklings, and direct sow the seeds for a harvest of MT adapted vegetable crop seeds!
Harvest and contribute your seeds to the MAYDAY! Gardens project - growing food plants in yards across Montana.

Whether a beginner or an experienced gardener, there is a vegetable crop seed you can grow with success! No matter if you have a small space or a huge yard of potential, you can grow vegetables for seed. Most important thing is, you want to learn about seeds and collaborate with nature!

There's tons of easy-to-grow, self-pollinated veggies like lettuce, tomatoes, and beans to start with as well as wind- and insect-pollinated plants for more of a challenge.

Growing vegetable seeds is a very important act!

The MAYDAY! Gardens program needs seeds to be able to grow so we may give away the resulting vegetable plant starts, and we need seeds grown at a variety of locations, by a variety of people; this strategy allows for enough space between vegetable varieties to prevent cross pollination. Moreover, seeds grown in this way brings us together, strengthens our communities, grows resilience, and frees us from the corporate control of our seeds, our food, and our future!

Please join us in growing seeds together.

COMMITMENT:

-Attend either the April 26th or May 13th introduction workshop, and ideally attend all the other workshops.

-Grow and care for at least one vegetable variety for seed.

-Harvest the seeds and bring them to CCMT in the fall.

-Read and review all seed-saving learning materials. Follow all the seed saving guidelines to prevent cross pollination.

-Follow organic growing and pest management guidelines as presented.

-Minimum space required: 3'X2' raised bed or planter box, 4 large planter pots, or 9 sq. feet of ground.

-Grow at least two different vegetable varieties for seed!

-Share the knowledge, the fun, and the power of saving seeds for our community!