[Pil-pc-oceania] 19th Seed Savers Conference

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Nineteenth Seed Savers Conference in Melbourne
(part of the 4th Australian City Farms & Community Gardens Network
Conference)


Action Packed Programme
Wednesday 21st March 2007

Venue: Collingwood Town Hall,
140 Hoddle Street, Collingwood, Melbourne
Cost of day: $75 
Bookings: Contact CERES reception at ceres.org.au
See you there!

Programme
8.45am Registration

9.00am Plenary 1 
Michel Fanton: Local Seed Networks, how gardeners
bypass seed companies and communicate through seeds
Jude Fanton: Seed Guardians around the World

9.40 Plenary 2 
Jerry Coleby-Williams: Horticultural Reconciliation -
how sustainable living can provide security for ordinary people. Jerry
Coleby-Williams is a horticulturist, writer, director of the Seed
Saver¹s 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.

Panel discussion: 10.20am-10.45am

Morning Workshop Presenters: 11.15am- 12.30pm
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
Karla Arroyo Rizo: Seed saving with the bio-intensive method and seed
networking in Mexico
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

1.45pm- 2.30pm Plenary 3
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Please note: Dr Shiva will not be presenting in
person, but via Œcarbon emmission friendly¹ live voice-link from
India. 
Dr. Vandana Shiva is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award
(often referred to as the alternative Nobel Peace Prize), physicist,
ecologist, activist, editor, and author of many books. In India she has
established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity conservation and
farmers' rights. Her most recent books are Biopiracy: The Plunder of
Nature and Knowledge and Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global
Food Supply.

2.30pm- 3.50pm Workshop 2
Clare White: Starting a Local Seed Network: Experiences from Seed
Savers @ CERES
Michel Porcher: The Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database - a
vital tool for the Seed Savers of this century
Megg Miller, founder and editor of Grass Roots: Heritage breeds of
poultry that are garden friendly
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. What¹s in it
for you and for the villagers?
Saverio Minutolo: Storytelling for children and young adults of the
fictional story ¹Gagan¹s Seeds/ inspired by Vandana Shiva¹s work
Graeme George from Heritage Fruit Network: Conservation of heritage
fruit trees

http://www.communitygarden.org.au/events/conference_07/index.html

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