Violet Town Seed Savers

Violet Town Seed Savers meet monthly on the first Sunday at 1.30pm.  We're a fairly loose group with no formal structure, committee etc - decisions are usually made at each meeting by those present.  Gatherings are held at members homes and gardens, or other properties of interest.  Each Wednesday Monika (our seed banker) holds open house at her Yea home for members who are able to come and help pack and label seeds.  Our excess seeds are sold at 3 monthly markets around the region for $1 a packet.  We find this a very satisfactory way of getting local seeds out to the wider community.  The money earned is used to buy books or other resources for the group and to make donations to various organisations, schools, charities etc .  We have donated seed to some fire affected gardeners. 

Sandra runs the month to month organisation of the group and puts out a newsletter quarterly with details of meetings and full of information and hints on all aspects of gardening and seed saving.  She welcomes any info from members to be included in the newsletter.  Sandra 5795 1109.

We enjoy trialling out new varieties as well as keeping many of the old tried and true ones going.  We have some very long term seed savers within the group and they are a wonderful resource for many beginners. 

If you would like to contact us, please phone Terry on 5790 8635 or Monika on 5797 2695.  If you would like to receive our seed list please email Monika at monika.boyce@ycs.com.au   We are happy to swap seeds with any other seed savers. 

Meetings for 2010

August 1st -  Dave Arnold's property Murrnong, Violet Town.  Garden visit and pumpkin soup tasting - bring along some pumpkin soup made from your favourite variety

August 3rd - visit to Yarrawonga Garden Club for talk/demo etc on seed saving

September 5th - garden visit to Sheila Curmi & Tim Barlow's property in Harry's Creek Road

October 3rd - propagation day at Sandra Richardson's.  Share methods which work for you. 

November 7th - seedling swap (summer veg - tomatoes, capsicums, eggplant - and whatever else you have ready!) venue tbc

December 5th - our break up meeting - venue tbc

our seeds!

Participants at the recent workshop in Violet Town

Sandra arriving to the June meeting with our seed collection!

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