From: Destinee Udelhoven <destineekae@hotmail.com> Subject: Historium FREE webinar fea. Pandemic-Popular Gardening & Heirloom Seed Saving Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 18:17:12 +0000 Message-ID: <CH2PR22MB2053DABD5E0E340F03DD6C2FA1D50@CH2PR22MB2053.namprd22.prod.outlook.com>
Seed companies had a bang-up year,
with pandemic gardens sprouting up everywhere.
Like millenia of mankind before us,
we found comfort in the soil and its bounty.
Does COVID have a silver lining
for the sustainable agriculture movement?
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Presented by Emily Rose Haga
Saturday, January 09 @ 10:30 a.m.
FREE WEBINAR. REGISTER BY WEDS, JAN 06.
The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society hosts Emily Rose Haga, Mount Horeb
native and Executive Director of internationally recognized conservation le
ader Seed Savers Exchange, on Saturday, January 09 at 10:30am for “Seedin
g Change: (Re)Turning to Our Gardens to Get Us through Hard Times.” This
free virtual event will explore ways that local efforts to cultivate and pr
eserve heirloom varieties can help us at this critical juncture in human hi
story.
The Victory Garden movements of the early 20th century empowered people to
raise their own home gardens to boost morale and provide food security to A
mericans in war times. Fast forward to the next century, and the pandemic o
f 2020 has caused people all over the world to spring into action and look
to their gardens for nourishment, comfort, justice, and more. Seed companie
s have faced unprecedented demand as a result.
Haga contends that this moment offers a unique opportunity to help restore
and strengthen connections between people and plants which have suffered in
our modern world.
Emily Rose Haga is a professional seedswoman with deep family roots in the
Mount Horeb area. She graduated from Mount Horeb High School, received a Ma
ster's Degree in Plant Breeding and Genetics from UW-Madison in 2010, spent
seven years as a geneticist at Maine-based Johnny's Selected Seeds, and re
cently moved back to the Driftless Region to lead Seed Savers Exchange in D
ecorah, Iowa. Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit, international leader in
the grassroots seed movement today. They currently steward over 20,000 var
ieties at their 890 acre headquarters called Heritage Farm, and have spearh
eaded efforts that have saved countless varieties from extinction over the
last 45 years.
Registration is required; participants may choose
to joinvia weblink or call-in number.
To sign up, email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net<mailto:mthorebhistory@mhtc.net> .
(include “1-9 Seed Webinar” in the subject line)
or call 608-437-6486 by Weds, Jan 06.
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WEBINAR IS OFFICIAL LAUNCH OF
DRIFTLESS SEED PROJECT
The Driftless Seed Project initiative
is a partner program of MHAHS, Back Home Farms, and Mount Horeb Area Commun
ity Garden, with start-up funding generously provided by the Rotary Club of
Mount Horeb.
The Driftless Seed Project seeks to educate Southwestern Dane County about
seed collecting, and will work to establish a catalog of local cultivated s
eeds. Over many generations, seeds can get lost; people die or move off the
land, no longer saving the seeds of their past. These seeds and their stor
ies can be lost forever. Like any natural resource, seeds should be saved a
nd passed along to the next generation. We hope to keep our local seeds and
varieties alive and vibrant –a true, literal living history of the bount
iful and beautiful Driftless region.
To learn more, email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net<mailto:mthorebhistory@mhtc.net
> or call 608-437-6486.
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Mount Horeb Area Historical Society
100 S 2nd St, Mount Horeb, WI 53572
(608) 437 - 6486
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