Potatoes and History

2009, February 28th
Wynchwood Barns, Toronto
Seedy Saturday Event

Three venerable elders of the Ontario organic agriculture movement re-united after 25 years to talk about;
1) Potatoes: they brought samples of rare heritage potatoes in different colors and shapes and talk about their history
2) How Seeds of Diversity grew out of Canadian Organic Growers (COG)
3) The creation of Seedy Saturday
4) How their passion and interest in organic farming developed
5) the importance of heritage seeds.

Presenters: 
ALEX CARON: grows 120 varieties of heritage potatoes and is a past president of COG
KEN McMULLEN: Spring Arbour Farm, (C.S.A) http://www.springarbourfarm.com , past president of COG 
GARRETT PITTENGER: grows 32 different varieties of heritage potatoes and is a consultant to Agriculture Canada's potato project. He is a past president of Seeds of Diversity

(This is an excerpt taken from the talk, for the full length 40min DVD email us at youth@foodshedproject.ca)

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