There's many reasons to save seeds in your garden! Whether you're looking to save some money on buying seeds, want to select seeds from favorite plants, or want to preserve a seed with a special story- seed saving is a powerful method to enrich your relationship with your garden.

Join us to learn more about how to grow plants for seed, harvest seeds, and store seeds from plants in your garden!

Attendees will receive the Zoom link via email on March 3.

This program will be hosted by Briana Smorstad, Seed Savers Exchange (SSE) Seed Bank Manager.

Briana Smorstad grew up in the Driftless Region, where her mother instilled in her a love of the land and nature by tending flowers and vegetables in her garden every summer. As a child, Bri didn’t much care for all of the hard work gardening required, but as an adult, she is enamored with the power gardening has to connect us with our food and land. Bri earned a bachelor’s degree in conservation biology; during her studies, she noticed that almost every conservation issue came back to our broken food system. This realization inspired her to pursue work in food systems to address the array of symptoms caused by this disconnect, including nutrition, climate change, conservation, and sustainable communities. She is over the moon to be working as the seed bank manager at Seed Savers Exchange because she gets to live in her favorite place (Decorah!) and work on one of humanity’s most important issues, our food system, by helping to preserve the seeds of our diverse garden heritage so people today and tomorrow can continue to connect with their food.

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