Seed Savers Exchange Heritage Farm Decorah, Iowa

33rd Annual ampout 19-21, 20 Conference & C July 13

elcome to the Seed Savers Exchange 33rd Annual Conference highlights... WConference and Campout. We hope you’ll have the Friday, 6:30 PM chance to see old friends, learn new things and listen to Seed Swap international leaders in the seed movement. Bean Hole Dr. Gary Nabhan, founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH,  will talk about adapting food production to climate Saturday, 3 PM change; Rome-based Dr. Jeremy Cherfas will speak on Dr. Jeremy Cherfas the changing regulations governing seed production in European Legislation: Is everything not permitted still forbidden? the European Union; and Dr. Jack Kloppenburg of the  University of Wisconsin will introduce the Open Source Saturday, 7 PM Seed Initiative, an alternative patent protection system for breeders. Combine this with workshops designed to give Gary Nabhan Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land gardeners and seed savers the tools they need to improve their practices, and you have the makings of a fabulous  weekend. Saturday, 8:30 PM Whether this is your first time to come to the Barn Dance conference, or your thirty-third, you’re sure to have a Music by Western Home String Band wonderful time.  Sunday, 11:45 AM Thank you for coming, Sara McCamant John Torgrimson, Executive Director Seed as a Tool for Community Organizing Activities Workshop Summaries Ancient White Park Cattle Tour the vegetable prefers cool conditions. If you eat the fruit (ie. tomatoes and squash are botanical fruits) 11:30 AM Saturday or the seeds, it needs warm conditions to produce Meets at Lower Hay Wagon Stop well. Join Rosalind and learn much more about Seed Swap Schedule Presenter: Tim Abbott: Learn about the growing your edibles successfully. Fri. 6:30-9:00 PM - East Tent breeding program used at Heritage Farm and how Sat. 4:30-5:30 PM - East Tent SSE maintains this rare cattle breed. Corn Hand Pollination 11:30 AM Saturday Apple Bud Grafting Meet at Lower Shuttle Stop (Limit of 10 attendees)* 10:00 AM Saturday Presenters: Dr. Tim Johnson & Friday Meet at Barn Classroom Andrea Springmeier: Because corn is wind- Presenter: Lindsay Lee: Learn how to create pollinated, many miles are required for isolation to Garden Hayride Tours your own orchard by using the bud grafting prevent cross-pollination. Where miles cannot be Meet at Upper Campus Info Tent technique. SSE advisor Lindsay Lee will obtained, hand-pollination must be used. Hand- demonstrate bud grafting, as well as discuss care for 5 PM & 6 PM pollination is easy and the supplies necessary are new trees. accessible and affordable. In this workshop, we will Apple Trail Hike demonstrate corn flower anatomy. We will teach The Apple Trail you how to spot and cut back emerging shoots, Meet in front of Visitors Center, 5 PM bag tassels to collect pollen, and execute successful 1:30 PM Saturday pollination of corn. Garden Party 6:30 - 9 PM Leaves from the Visitors Center Bean Hole, Music by Lew Klimesh, Presenter: Grant Olson & Dan Bussey: The apple trail leads visitors on a hike from the old Cucurbit Hand Pollination Hard Cider & Cyser Making Class orchard to the new orchard, discussing the history 1:30 PM Saturday (Limit of 10 attendees)* (Main Stage) and purpose of our apple preservation. An audio Meet at Lower Shuttle Stop Seed Catalog Exhibit (Barn Loft), accompaniment describes the greater culture of Presenters: Josh Kraetsch & Jamie Carnevale apples and apple diversity in America. SSE will demonstrate techniques for hand Food & Drink pollination that can be used on melons, squash, Courtyard Cash Bar Becoming a Commercial Seed Grower cucumbers, and watermelon. For anyone interested in learning isolation techniques or plant breeding, (starting at 5:30 PM) 9:00 AM Sunday these hand-pollination methods are a useful tool to Conference Room (Office) use in making controlled crosses. Presenter: Tom Wahlberg & Trisha Hageman: Join in on a Q & A covering all aspects Diane’s Garden Tour of becoming a commercial seed grower, taking it beyond saving seed for your own home garden use. 9:00 AM Sunday Saturday Diane’s Garden Starting at 4:30: Presenter: Diane Ott Whealy: SSE co-founder Building a Community Seed will lead guests through the garden named in her Garden Hayride Tours Movement honor at SSE. This is your chance to hear from the Meet at Upper Campus Info Tent 10:00 AM Saturday woman who helped make the SSE dream a reality Main Stage and stories about some of the varieties of heirlooms Open House grown at Heritage Farm. Speaker: Sarah McCamant: Across the country, Preservation Lab, Library, people are coming together to reclaim seed as a Commercial Seed House tool to build community resilience and stronger Diversity Gardens Tour local food systems. Hear about what is happening 10:00 AM Saturday Book Signing (East Porch) in this exciting movement- how seed access plays a crucial role in giving people the ability to grow food Diversity Gardens Diversity & Trial Garden Tours and strengthen their neighborhoods. Saving and Presenter: Grant Olson: Take a guided tour Courtyard Cash Bar sharing local seed is bringing seed saving to a new through SSE’s new display - Diversity Gardens. (starting at 5:30 PM) generation of gardeners and seed savers. Come This year’s displays feature SSE members, heirloom learn what new seed projects are sprouting up and success stories, and a sneak peak of varieties offered Barn Dance in the Loft find out how you can engage your community in in the 2014 Yearbook. the cycle of growing, gathering and sharing seeds. Western Home String Band Dry Seed Processing and Storage 8:30-10:30 PM Confusion in the Edible Garden – 9:00 AM Sunday What Most Gardeners Want to Know Seed Processing Shed Presenter: Heidi Cook: Learn techniques for 1:30 PM Saturday harvesting, cleaning, and storing dry seed. Dry seed Main Stage is any seed that is harvested when dry, in a husk or Sunday Presenter: Rosalind Creasy: Plant breeders pod. This workshop will cover harvest techniques Bird Walk and nursery people know much about edible plants like threshing, winnowing, and screening. that seldom reaches the home gardener. Did you Led by Dennis Carter, retired US know that cilantro is a short day plant that needs National Park Service naturalist. cool weather? That’s why it always goes to flower Evaluating a Poultry Herd for Breeding when you plant it in the spring as the days get 1:30 PM Saturday Meet at lower shuttle stop. longer - instead plant it in the fall. Or, those large Spring Stage Sunday - 7:00 AM heirloom beefsteak tomatoes have many ovaries and Presenters: Jeannette Beranger & Alison Martin most need warm humid nights to pollinate them Yes, it’s a chicken but is it a good chicken? all properly? That’s why they often grow poorly Knowing which birds to breed and which to eat is in cool or arid summer areas. How do you know fundamental to good breeding. In this hands-on which vegetables to grow in the cool seasons, and workshop you will learn how to evaluate a chicken which to grow in the warm season? There’s a rule flock for meat production, egg-laying qualities, of thumb: If you eat the leaf, tuber, or flower bud and long-term genetic maintenance. You will also have the opportunity to understand how to network Introduction to the Robert Becker Seed Saving For Community Gardens with breeders and find out how to acquire your own flock of endangered chickens and become part of Memorial Library 9:00 AM Sunday the effort to conserve these remarkable animals. 10:00 AM Saturday Location: Barn Classroom Robert Becker Memorial Library Presenter: Grant Olson: Saving seed from Presenters: Bill Musser & Keith Crotz: Learn community gardens can present unique challenges Hard Cider & Cyser Making about the 3,300+ volumes in the RBML collection (and opportunities) for gardeners. Join us for and why SSE collects rare and antique horticultural discussion and demonstration of appropriate 6:00 PM Friday techniques and strategies. Main Stage books and publications. Presenter: Dan Bussey: We will explore all the ways that hard cider can be made with emphasis on Listed Member Panel: Seed Saving for Seed Stories juice and yeast selection and proper sanitation for Easy Crop Types 5:00 PM Friday fool-proof results. 11:30 AM Saturday 9:00 AM Sunday Barn Classroom Main Stage Herb & Flower Seeds: Sow, Savor & Save Presenters: Jeff Fleming, Russell Crow, Presenter: Sara Straate: To better understand 10:30 AM Sunday our seeds’ stories, SSE has launched the Collection Grant Olson: Join some of SSE’s listed members Origins Research Effort (CORE), to collect Main Stage to discuss saving seeds from common, self- complete histories on the thousands of records in Presenter: Ira Wallace: We wouldn’t have all of pollinating annuals: beans, peas, lettuce and the collection. Hear the stories that are coming out the wonderful heirloom herb and flower varieties tomatoes. These plant types are great for beginning of the CORE project and learn how some of our we do today if someone hadn’t kept the seeds from seed savers. favorite varieties came to be. year to year. Learn the basics of herb and flower seed saving. Choosing what to save? When should Make Your Own Seed Screens you harvest? Simple tools and methods for cleaning Starting a Seed Library and storing your herb and flower seeds. Enjoy some 1:30 PM Saturday & 10:30 AM Sunday sweet and savory treats, then add the flavor and 10:30 AM Sunday Spring Stage beauty of herbs and flowers to the seeds you save Barn Classroom each year. Presenter: Kelly Becker & Cindy Mischnick Presenters: Jim Edrington & Dick Jensen: Do you think your community would benefit from a Construct your own seed screen for cleaning and local seed library? Join us for a discussion about the History of Seed Savers Exchange processing your saved seed. (Pre-registration seed library movement from roots to bloom. Kelly 11:30 AM Saturday required, material cost, $20, limit of 20 will talk about how she started the Seed Library Main Stage attendees)* in LaCrosse, WI, as well as cover the diversity of Presenter: Diane Ott Whealy: Diane Ott Whealy ways other communities have started seed library co-founded Seed Savers Exchange with Kent Participatory Preservation: programs. Learn about the successes and challenges Whealy in 1975. She has been a national leader in Membership, M-GEN, and the of the different ways of starting, organizing, the heirloom seed movement and a strong advocate promoting, maintaining, and fundraising for a for the protection of the earth’s rare genetic food Yearbook local seed library. There will be time for questions stocks for more than 35 years. In 1986 she helped 10:30 AM Sunday and discussion. develop Heritage Farm, SSE’s scenic 890-acre Conference Room (Office) headquarters near Decorah, Iowa to maintain and Presenters: Joanne Thuente & Tor Janson: Wet Seed Processing & Storage display endangered varieties. In June 2011, she Become more involved in preserving our garden 10:30 AM Sunday published Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver, which tells heritage. Learn about becoming a Listed Member, Seed Processing Shed the story of how SSE has grown from a small coterie using the Yearbook, and different programs like the of passionate gardeners to one of the most active Member-Grower Evaluation Network. Presenter: Heidi Cook: Heirloom vegetables are and effective seed saving organizations in the world. packed with color, flavor, and good nutrition, but they also tend to be harder to find in garden stores Preserving Heritage Breeds & Livestock than hybrid varieties. Ensure access to your favorites Home Germination Testing 9:00 AM Sunday by saving your seed from year to year. An overview 1:30 PM Saturday Spring Stage of seed saving for wet-seeded vegetables such as Preservation Lab (Limit of 20 attendees)* tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, melons, Presenters: Jeannette Beranger & Alison cucumber, and squash. Includes seed processing, Presenter: Andrea Springmeier: Every Martin: For nearly 40 years American Livestock fermentation, drying, and storage techniques. gardener, from time to time, may discover a Breeds Conservancy has been working to conserve lost packet or old jar of seeds which could hold rare breeds of traditional livestock and poultry. the potential for an amazing or disappointing These breeds represent an important genetic Trial Gardens Tour crop. At this session you will learn how to test the 10:30 AM Sunday germination rate before you spend hours wasting resource for the future and a versatile opportunity time and precious garden space on something that for producers interested in creating more Meet in front of LGVC won’t return the favor. sustainable systems on their farms. Come learn Presenter: Jennifer Zoch: Come take a stroll about these amazing animals and what kind of through SSE’s “living catalog” while learning about services and marketing opportunities are emerging the many important purposes the trial gardens Hosting a Seed Swap for people working with heritage breeds. serve. 11:30 AM Saturday Spring Stage Seed Saving 101 • Attendance will be filled on a first come, first served Presenter: LaManda Joy: This workshop will 10:00 AM Saturday basis. cover tips on how to organize a seed swap and will discuss the value of seed swaps for encouraging seed Spring Stage saving. When promoting a seed swap it should be Presenter: Jenna Sicuranza: This workshop will made clear that seeds are available to anyone who expose you to biological and ecological concepts can make good use of them and will be given out that are key to successful seed saving. Topics without the expectation of payment or of receiving covered include: plant reproductive structures, seeds in exchange for those given away. pollination methods, taxonomy, and the basics of plant isolation and seed storage. A must for anyone new to seed saving! Author Book Signing Keynote Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land 4:30 PM Saturday Lessons from Desert Farmers on Adapting to Climate Uncertainty East Porch, Lillian Goldman Visitors Center Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan, Saturday, 7 PM With climatic uncertainty now “the new normal,” many farmers, gardeners, The following authors will be on hand to and orchardists in North America are desperately seeking ways to adapt how sign their books. All books listed below are they grow food in the face of climate change. The solutions may be at our back available for purchase at the Lillian Goldman door. In Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land, Nabhan, one of the world’s experts on Visitors Center during the conference. the agricultural traditions of arid lands, draws from the knowledge of traditional farmers in the Gobi Desert, the Arabian Peninsula, the Sahara Desert, and Andalusia, as well as the Sonoran, Chihuahuan, and Painted deserts of North Rosalind Creasy America to offer time-tried strategies, including: • Building greater moisture-holding capacity and nutrients in soils; Edible Landscaping • Protecting fields from damaging winds, drought, and floods; Recipes from the Garden • Reducing heat stress on crops and livestock; • Harvesting water from uplands to use in rain gardens and terraces filled with perennial crops; Dr. Jack Kloppenburg • Selecting fruits, nuts, succulents, and herbaceous perennials that First the Seed: The Political Economy are best suited to warmer, drier climates; and, • Keeping pollinators in pace and in place with arid-adapted crop of Plant Biotechnology plants.

Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan is a former board member and long-time supporter Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan of SSE. He is an internationally celebrated nature writer, seed saver, Growing Food in a Hotter, Drier Land conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called “the father of the local food movement” by Mother Earth News. Gary is also Desert Terroir an orchard-keeper, wild forager and Ecumenical Franciscan brother in his hometown of Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border. Diane Ott Whealy Gathering: Memoir of a Seed Saver Saturday’s Featured Speakers European Legislation: Is everything not permitted still forbidden? By Dr. Jeremy Cherfas, Saturday, 3-4 PM The European Union’s restrictive regulations prevent people from marketing any SSE staff, advisors, & board presenters: crop variety that hasn’t been registered on a National Catalog. As a result, many of Tim Abbott, Herdsman the activities that you take for granted—including seed swaps and selling small packets Aaron Burmeister, Collection Technician of seeds—are illegal. Some seed companies have incurred heavy fines for offering Dan Bussey, Orchard Manager their customers a greater choice. Cherfas explores the history and future of EU seed Jamie Carnevale, Greenhouse Manager regulations, and shows that despite the recent changes, they are Europe’s biggest obstacle to innovation and adaptation to climate change. Shannon Carmody, Public Programs Manager Katie Case, Seed Technician • Rosalind Creasy, SSE Board Member Dr. Jeremy Cherfas is a biologist and communicator. He worked to resurrect the Heidi Cook, Seed Technician • Bryan Stuart, Field Manager Heritage Seed Library of Garden Organic in England and for a while ran a small Keith Crotz, SSE Board Chairman seed company called Future Foods, which specialized in “weird and wonderful things for the edible garden.” More recently, he worked as senior science writer at Jim Edrington, Facilities Manager Bioversity International, the international agricultural research center focused on Trisha Hageman, Seed Inventory agricultural biodiversity. He lives in Rome, and still saves seeds when he can. Tor Janson, Horticultural Technician • Dick Jensen, Facilities Tim Johnson, PhD, Seed Bank Manager Toward Open Source Seeds: Free as in Speech, Not as Josh Kraetsch, Greenhouse Technician in Beer By Dr. Jack Kloppenburg, Saturday 9-10 AM Lindsay Lee, Advisor • Bill Musser, Librarian Grant Olson, Education Coordinator Corporate appropriation of plant genetic resources, development of transgenic crops, and the global imposition of intellectual property rights are now widely Jenna Sicuranza, Collection Curator recognized as serious constraints on the free exchange of seeds and the development Andrea Springmeier, Collection Technician of new cultivars by public breeders and small seed companies. In response, legal Sara Straate, Seed Historian and operational mechanisms drawn from the open source software movement have Joanne Thuente, Database Manager been proposed for deployment in plant breeding. In the United States, an Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) has been organized by a working group of plant John Torgrimson, Executive Director breeders, farmers, non-governmental organizations and sustainable food system Tom Wahlberg, Seed House Manager advocates. OSSI promotes innovative plant breeding that produces resilient and Diane Ott Whealy, SSE Co-Founder productive cultivars adapted to a multiplicity of sustainable agroecosystems. It works Jennifer Zoch, Seed Technician to encourage and reward the sharing rather than the restriction of germplasm, to revitalize public plant breeding, and to integrate the skills and capacities of farmers with those of plant scientists.

Emergency Phone Dr. Jack Kloppenburg is a Professor in the Department of Community and located on West Porch, Visitors Center Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the influential First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology, Dial 9 first then 9-1-1 1492-2000. Sunday’s Featured Speaker Building a Community Seed Movement By Sara McCamant Meals Sunday 11:45 AM-12:30 PM All meals served on the West Porch of the Lillian Across the country, people are coming together to reclaim seed as a tool to build community resilience Goldman Visitors Center and stronger local food systems. Hear about what is happening in this exciting movement - how seed access plays a crucial role in giving people the ability to grow food and strengthen their neighborhoods. Saving and sharing local seed is bringing seed saving to a new generation of gardeners and seed savers. Friday, July 19: Come learn what new seed projects are sprouting up and find out how you can engage your community in Noon-12:45 PM, Oneota Coop the cycle of growing, gathering and sharing seeds. Organic Turkey or Hummus Sandwich, Sara McCamant has always used seed and gardens to bring people together and strengthen community. Lundberg Family Farms Rice Chips, Sea Salt She hated having jars of seed sitting in the closet growing old so she began to organize ways to share and Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Watermelon swap seed with neighbors. Sara co-founded one of the first community seed banks in the country and has been involved with building the resources and skills to strengthen the emerging community based seed 6:30-8 PM, Old Armory BBQ movement through her work with Seed Matters. Organic Beef Sliders from Grass Run Farms and Rock Cedar Ranch, Potato Salad & Speaker Bios Coleslaw, Jalapeno Corn Bread, Honey, $10 Kelly Becker is the Seed Library Alison Martin joined the ALBC team in or Coordinator for the La Crosse Public 2011 to serve as the Research and Technical Vegetarian Tamales, Corn & Black Bean Salad Library and works as a Library Assistant in Programs Director, returning to her roots w/ Lime & Cilantro, & Spanish Rice, $10 the Circulation Department. She has worked with heritage breeds and small production for the library for the past 6 years and during systems. As a teenager, Martin raised backyard Saturday, July 20: that time has completed her Master’s Degree poultry, waterfowl, rabbits and horses. This 8-9 AM, Organic Continental Breakfast in Library Science through the University of early experience led to a career of more than Kalona SuperNatural Hard Boiled Eggs, North Texas. She lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin, 20 years in poultry science, specializing in Organic Valley Hardwood Smoked Bacon, with her husband Joe and their 2 dogs. She health and vaccine development. She has led Seven Stars Farm Yogurt, Sno-Pac Berries, likes to walk her American Bulldog, Beaslee, cross functional teams in research, facility Granola, Waving Grains Bakery Poppy seed & around the city, watch movies, and spend time design and operations, manufacturing and Blueberry Muffins, Coffee, Tea, Oregon Chai with family and friends. quality support, and she was a key leader on the world’s first in ovo (in the egg) vaccine Jeannette Beranger came to ALBC with for coccidiosis. Martin’s skills in working 12:30-1:30 PM, McCaffrey’s Dolce Vita over 20 years experience working with animals collaboratively has helped her form a strategic Rootbeer Pulled Pork Sandwiches on in the non-profit sector. Beginning her scientific and technical capacity in the Homemade Buns or Vegetarian Wraps, career as a veterinary technician, Jeannette conservation programs. Martin has a Ph.D. Carolina Coleslaw, Fresh Garden Salad, progressed to become a head zookeeper at the in Genetics from Virginia Tech, where she Fresh Fruit, & Bars Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island. specialized in disease resistance in poultry. Her responsibilities included managing a 5:30-7 PM, Trout River Catering wide variety of species, and in particular the Cindy Mischnick is currently a Reference Local Wild Board Sausage, or Vegetarian animals within the rare breeds farm of the Librarian at La Crosse Public Library and zoo. Through her work for the American has spent part of her career as a Bookmobile Sausage, with peppers, onions and white Association of Zookeepers, Inc., she Librarian and Children’s Librarian. As part beans, Roasted Corn Polenta, Italian Potato developed international outreach programs of the library’s programming committee for Vegetable Salad, Salad Greens with a Maple that included zookeeper training workshops the past ten years, she has put together poetry Vinaigrette, Sliced Baguette with Herb Butter. and the first-ever international conference programs, writing contests and workshops, on zookeeping. Jeannette’s experience and environmental, gardening, food, and Sunday, July 21: facilitating research, organizing workshops film programs. She is on the board of Coulee 8:00-9:00 AM, Organic Pancakes and conferences, applying technology to Partners for Sustainability, a member of the with optional Berries, Jam, Milton improve animal husbandry, combined with Earth Fair Committee and likes to garden, Creamery Quark Cheese, Butter, Sugar her skills in outreach and networking enable hike, read, bike, travel, watch films and Bush Maple Syrup, Seven Stars Farm Yogurt her to research, plan, develop and implement eat other people’s cooking. She lives in La important breed conservation programs Crosse, Wisconsin, with her husband Bob and 12:45-2 PM, The Pepperfield Project for ALBC. At home she practices what she tremendous cat, Percy, and has one son who Garden Pizzas with home-stewed garlic and preaches on her heritage breeds farm where just graduated from college. She is thrilled to she maintains and breeds endangered Buckeye be part of the La Crosse Public Library’s Seed tomato sauce, roasted vegetables, fresh basil chickens and Marsh Tacky horses. Library! and mozzarella & Salad Medley: Forbidden Rice & Sweet Potato LaManda Joy is an award winning Master Roasted Vegetable with Feta Gardener, author of the popular urban Tomato Balsamic Pasta gardening blog “The Yarden” and Founder of Lillian Goldman Garden Chop Chop w/ Red Pepper Vinaigrette The Peterson Garden Project, a community and edible garden education program in Chicago, Visitors Center Special Thanks to These Businesses For Illinois. She is a board member of the American HOURS: Donating Snacks! Community Gardening Association, member Crackers-Late July of The Culinary Historians of Chicago and Friday 9 AM - 9 PM a national speaker on Victory Gardens, both Assorted Cheese-Organic Valley historic and modern, and other edible garden Saturday 8 AM - 9 PM Trailmix-Eden Foods topics. Her recent lecture at the Library of Sunday 8 AM - 5 PM Peanut Butter-East Wind Nut Butter Congress can be seen at: http://ht.ly/8z7k5 Tamari Almonds-Once Again Nut Butter Rice & Tortilla Chips-Lundberg Family Farms Information & Campground Rules Upcoming Events

• NO PETS ALLOWED at the Conference • No fires… only small portable camp stoves are August 10–Isolation Methods Workshop allowed. Gain hands-on skills in Cucurbit and corn • Please observe the Leave-No-Trace camping pollination, as we discuss the isolation needs of ethic. Pack out what you take in. • Camp and park only in the designated different vegetables.* campsites. When possible or desired, parties of August 24–Fundraising Dinner • Most cell phones will not receive a signal in two tents can share the same site. Support the work of SSE by participating in the camping areas, or in the lower campus. Cell this seed-to-table event prepared by Chef Kurt service is available at the end of the driveway, or • Quiet Hours are between 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM Michael Friese of Devotay.* most places on the upper campus. There is an August 31–Tomato Tasting emergency-use-only phone on the West porch • Portable restrooms are next to the valley shed Come celebrate the tomato–sample over 40 of the Lillian Goldman Visitors Center, dial 9 and in the Lillian Goldman Visitors Center different varieties. first. parking lot. Additional restrooms are in the red barn. There is a portable hand-washing station September 28–Squash Festival Come to Heritage Farm for fun and festivities •All cars in the campground must be registered in the campground area. and stay for the next day’s workshops. at the registration desk and you must put your camping placard in the front window, driver’s • No Showers are available. However, the Decorah September 29–Seed Saving Workshop side. Municipal Pool has offered to let our campers Learn seed saving basics with a focus on use their showers for the weekend, no charge! harvesting seed from dry and wet-seeded crops.* • Cars should observe a speed limit of 10 MPH The pool is located in Decorah. Take Hwy 52 October 11-13–Three-Day Seed Workshop and take caution near the many blind corners south to College Drive. Take a left onto College Immerse yourself in the world of seed. Learn along the roads and paths. This road is also used Drive and continue until you come to Luther about the seed industry and the tradition for hiking throughout the weekend. College on your right. Then the pool is located of saving seed, plus master skills like hand- right after Luther College on your right. pollination and seed processing.* Heritage Farm is a tobacco-free environment! *Pre-registration required

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Need to cool off? Parking Find a COOL AREA Preservation Garden Trail 1) In the Seed House 2) Lillian Goldman Visitors Center Maintenance Greenhouses 3) Lobby of Main Office Shed 1 2 3 2013 Conference & Campout Schedule Friday, July 19, 2013 10 am Registration & coffee (East Porch) 10:30 am Welcome (Main Stage) 11:15 - 11:45 am Alliums: Seed House Tour Solanums: Preservation Lab Tour Brassicas: Upper Campus Tour Cucurbits: South Farm Tour (Seed House) (Office) (Upper info. tent) (Lower shuttle stop) Noon Lunch (West Porch) 12:45 - 1:15 pm Solanums: Seed House Tour Brassicas: Preservation Lab Tour Cucurbits: Upper Campus Tour Alliums: South Farm Tour (Seed House) (Office) (Upper info. tent) (Lower shuttle stop) 1:30 - 2:00 pm Brassicas: Seed House Tour Cucurbits: Preservation Lab Tour Alliums: Upper Campus Tour Solanums: South Farm Tour (Seed House) (Office) (Upper info. tent) (Upper shuttle stop) 2:15 - 2:45 pm Cucurbits: Seed House Tour Alliums: Preservation Lab Tour Solanums: Upper Campus Tour Brassicas: South Farm Tour (Seed House) (Office) (Upper info. tent) (Upper shuttle stop) 3:00 pm Collection Presentation and Discussion (Spring Stage) 3:45 pm Member Engagement Meeting (Spring Stage) 4:15 pm Q&A with Board and Staff (Diane’s Garden) 4:00 pm – 7:00pm General Registration (East Porch) 5:00 pm Apple Trail Hike Seed Stories Hay Wagon Rides (Leaves from Visitors Center) (Main Stage) (Leaves from upper shuttle stop) 6:00 pm Maryanne Fox Legacy Distribution (East Tent), Hard Cider & Cyser Making Workshop (Main Stage) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Garden Party: Bean Hole, Seed Swap, Music, Seed Catalog Exhibit in Barn Loft, Cash Bar, Dinner for Purchase, Cider Swap Saturday, July 20, 2013 8:00 am – 4:00 pm Registration (East Porch) 8:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast (West Porch) 9:00 am – 9:45 am Featured Speaker: Dr. Jack Kloppenburg (Main Stage) Tracks Seed Saving 101 Garden Tours/About SSE Community Seed Projects Garden Skills 10:00 am - 11:00 am Seed Saving 101 Diversity Gardens Tour Building a Community Seed Apple Bud Grafting (Barn Classroom) (Spring Stage) (Diversity Gardens) Movement (Main Stage) Intro to Robert Becker Memorial Library (Library) 11:00 am – 11:30 am Break 11:30 am – 12:30 pm Corn Hand Pollination History of SSE (Main Stage) Hosting a Seed Swap Listed Member Panel: Seed Saving with (Lower Shuttle Stop) (Spring Stage) Easy Crop Types (Barn Classroom) Ancient White Park Cattle Tour (Lower Hay Wagon Stop) 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (West Porch) 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Cucurbit Hand Pollination The Apple Trail Make Your Own Seed Screens Confusion in the Edible Garden (Lower Shuttle Stop) (Leaves from Visitors Center) (Barn Classroom) (Main Stage) Home Germination Testing Evaluating a Poultry Herd for Breeding (Preservation Lab) (Spring Stage) 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Featured Speaker: Dr. Jeremy Cherfas (Main Stage) 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Seed Swap (East Tent), Book Signing (East Porch), Hayride (Upper Information Tent), Commercial, Library, & Preservation Open Houses, Trial Gardens Tour (Meet in front of LGVC), Diversity Garden Tour (Diversity Gardens) 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm Dinner (West Porch) 7:00 pm Keynote Address: Dr. Gary Paul Nabhan (Main Stage) 8:30 pm Barn Dance music by Western Home String Band Sunday, July 21, 2013 7:00 am Bird Walk (Lower Shuttle Stop) 8:00 – 9:00 am Pancake Breakfast (West Porch) 9:00 am - 10:00 am Dry Seed Processing and Storage Diane’s Garden Tour Seed Saving in Community Preserving Heritage Breeds & (Seed Processing Shed) (Diane’s Garden) Gardens (Barn Classroom) Livestock (Spring Stage) Becoming a Commercial Seed Grower Seed Stories (Conference Room) (Main Stage) 10:00 am – 10:30 am Break 10:30 am – 11:30 am Wet Seed Processing Trial Gardens Tour Starting a Seed Library Make Your Own Seed Screens (Seed Processing Shed) (Meet in front of LGVC) (Spring Stage) (Barn Classroom) Herb and Flower Seeds: Sow, Savor and Participatory Preservation Save (Main Stage) (Conference Room) 11:45 am – 12:30 pm Featured Speaker: Sara McCamant (Main Stage) 12:45 pm – 2 pm Lunch (West Porch)