Cities Feeding People - Seed Savers' Nineteenth Conference

12 March 2007
Excellent 19th Conference held in Melbourne in March 2007

Seed Savers Nineteenth Conference
Cities Feeding People- 'Grow it Where you Live!'
was held at Collingwood Town Hall, Melbourne
Tuesday 20th to Sunday 25th March 2007

Events
Tuesday: School Gardens
Wednesday: Seed Savers’ Nineteenth Conference - see programme below
Thursday: Food Security
Friday: Fourth Conference of City Farms and Community Gardening
Saturday pm: Tours of community and school gardens
Sunday: Harvest Festival at CERES


Day Two, Wednesday 21st March: Seed Savers’ Nineteenth Conference

Programme
8.15 to 8.45am Registration
8.45am Harmony Day celebration
9.00 to 9.45am Plenary 1
Jude Fanton: Seed Guardians around the World
Michel Fanton: Local Seed Networks, how gardeners bypass seed companies and communicate through seeds
9.45 to 10.25am Plenary 2
Jerry Coleby-Williams: Horticultural Reconciliation - how sustainable living can provide security for ordinary people. Jerry is a horticulturist, writer, director of the Seed Saver’s Foundation and ABC Gardening Australia presenter. He worked in many public gardens, including Kew, and for eleven years managed the horticultural estate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
10.25 to 10.45am Panel discussion on relevance of seed saving today
Megg Miller founding editor of Grass Roots, Bob Phelps from Genethics Network, Jerry Coleby-Williams, Jude and Michel Fanton
11.15am to 12.30pm Morning Workshop
Jude Fanton: Going to seed in the garden
Jerry Coleby-Williams: A family of gardeners - sustaining our cultural traditions
Tash Morton: Develop a seed saving plan for your garden
Andy Carter: Urban beekeeping
Michael Woodruff: Basics of domestic worm farming - how to set-up the environment for successful worm farming at home
Elspeth Brock of Victorian Indigenous Nursery Cooperative: Seed collection and propagation of native plants
Myfanwy Sun: Seed music & mandala workshop
1.45 to 2.30pm Plenary 3
Dr. Vandana Shiva Please note: Dr Shiva will not be presenting in person, but via ‘carbon emmission friendly’ live voice-link from India. Dr. Shiva is recipient of Right Livelihood Award (often referred to as alternative Nobel Peace Prize), physicist, ecologist, activist and author of many books. Her most recent books are Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply.
2.30 to 3.50pm Afternoon Workshop
Clare White: Starting a Local Seed Network: Experiences from Seed Savers @ CERES
Michel Porcher: The Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database â€" a vital tool for seed savers
Megg Miller, founder and editor of Grass Roots: Heritage breeds of garden friendly poultry
Louis Glowinski, author of Fruit Growing in Australia: Backyard food gardening
Bob Phelps, Genethics Network: seed heritage issues, terminator technology
Michel Fanton: Volunteering on seedy projects overseas. What’s in it for you and for the villagers?
Saverio Minutolo: Storytelling for children and young adults of the fictional story ’Gagan’s Seeds/ inspired by Vandana Shiva’s work

This conference was proudly supported by VicHealth & brought to you by
the following organisations & a host of dedicated volunteers:
0. Seed Savers' Network
0. CERES reception@ceres.org.au
0. Garden of Eden
0. Collingwood Children's Farm
0. Cultivating Community