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The Garden is thrilled to welcome back Mel Sylvestre of Grounded Acres Organic Farm for an informative session on seed-starting vegetable crops! If you missed last year's fantastic and informative presentation, here's your chance! Mel will share info and tips that you can take away to implement in your garden. They will touch on what can be grown successfully in our Sunshine Coast climate, the correct timing for indoor starting and outdoor direct sowing, optimum soil conditions, the best tools to use, and recommended fertilizers.
Admission: Members $15; Non-Members $20
Purchase Tickets: https://revenue-can.keela.co/seed-starting-with-mel-sylvestre or phone our office at 604-740-3969
Get to know Mel:
Mel doesn’t give up easily on projects and finds farming addictive: every season is a chance to try something differently and learn how to improve! They have been farming for over 20 years, the majority spent in field management at Saanich Organics on Vancouver Island and UBC Farm in Vancouver.
They graduated in 2015 with a Bachelor’s degree in Plant and Soil Science from UBC and use these skills in their work as an organic Verification Officer and on a review committee for a local organic certification body.
Mel mentors many new farmers in the region and has more than 10 years experience teaching farm students. They are a founding member of the BC Eco Seed Co-operative where they continuously refine their expertise as a seed producer, advocate and educator. As co-president of the Southern Sunshine Coast Farmers’ Institute they advocate for the needs of farmers in our region.
Mel is curious to learn and is always seeking out new farm skills including operating machinery, using power tools, and plant breeding. Mel grew up in rural Quebec among fields of fragrant flowering buckwheat; wherever they farm now you can be sure there’s a buckwheat cover crop growing nearby and you can find them making buckwheat crepes on Sunday mornings for their family.
Learn more about Grounded Acres Organic Farm and where to buy their produce: https://www.groundedacresfarm.ca/
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5941 Mason Road, Sechelt, BC, Canada, British Columbia, 5941 Mason Rd, Sechelt, BC V7Z 0N4, Canada,Sechelt, British Columbia, Gibsons
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