Spring Propagation Fair this Sunday March 27 in Eugene

[seed ambassadors]

Hi Everyone,

It's that time of year again!

This year's Spring Propagation fair will be this Sunday, March 27, at Lane Community College in Eugene, from 11 - 5.

Come share and gather seeds, fruit tree scion wood, and other plant propagation materials with your friends and neighbors.

More information is below, including workshop schedule. For more information or to volunteer, please contact victorygar...@gmail.com.


Hope to see you this Seedy Sunday!


Sarah and Andrew

a.  The Fair is Sunday, March 27th, starting at 11 a.m. and going until 5 p.m.  It will be at LCC Lane Community College in the Cafeteria. b.  We need about 20 people to help us set up either on saturday night from 3 until 7 p.m. or on sunday morning from 8 a.m. until 11 a.m. c.  We need 20 people during the fair, 10 stations to person, with 2 shifts. d.  This is the third year for this event.  We will have the scion wood and root stock to make trees, including cherry, plum, apples, pear, peach, persimmon.  There will also be folks there to teach grafting and to graft your tree for you. e.  If you have gooseberries, currents, fig, grapes raspberries, strawberries,  or perennial herbs, please  bring them along to the fair to share with others.  Different plants work differently.  Please send an email to us if you want to know how to bring parts of your particular plant or how to thin them.  If you need to thin your plants (all of the above need thining) and cannot come to the propagation fair please leave plants at CALC, 458 blair behind the building, under the carport that is back there. f.  There will also be our semi-annual seed swap, where you can come and avail yourself of locally grown seeds, adapted to our area by all the folks that save seed in our area. g.  Please call Brad if you are going.  LCC buses do not run on Sunday, so he is arranging rides.  Please call him if you can offer a ride, as well as if you need a ride.  This way we can hook people up with rides who don't have cars.  His number is 541-525-7420.  This includes the folks who are helping set up. h.  speakers for the propagation fair: 11:00 Joshua will be speaking on high yields from a food forest.    A food forest is fruit and nut trees, mixed with berry bushes, perennial vegetables, vines, designed for an ecosystem which as in a forest, does not need fertilizer, pesticides or fungicides to produce wonderful fruit.  It is  edible landscaping. 12:00 Jude Hobbs will be speaking on plants for edeible landscaping. 12:30 Jan Spencer speaking on the river road community, model for other communities. 1:00 Grafting workshop with Nick Routledge 2:00 Native plant talk with Bruce Newhouse:  How to attract native pollinators and other wildlife to your garden using native plants. 3:00 Nick Routledge and Sherry Brown talking about medicinal and pollinating herbs, why they belong in every garden. for more information email victorygar...@gmail.com

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