Free The Seeds 2019 | Food Resilient Communities | Robin Kelson from the Good Seed Company | Whitefish, MT

Free the Seeds!

provides community-powered opportunities to build a sustainable and resilient future through real seeds, real food, and real skills. We look forward to you joining us for our 4th annual Free the Seeds! on March 2, 2019.

This year’s fair will be held again in Kalispell at Flathead Valley Community College in the Arts & Technology Building. The fair will open with the seed swap and vendor booths at 9 am. The seed swap will run 9 am–noon. Workshops, booths, and kids’ activities will be held 10 am–3:30 pm, with a 45-minute break for lunch at 12:15 pm. Food will be available for purchase at the event all day.

Ready for some inspiration? Check out our workshop videos from the 2017 fair.

We look forward to seeing you in March 2019!

Free the Seeds! is a program of Farm Hands – Nourish the Flathead, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, whose mission is to reconnect people to the sources of their food and those who produce it through education, outreach, and market support.

2018 Free the Seeds!

Last year we handed out between 15-20,000 packets of seeds. Donated by local growers and seed companies. Volunteers who help clean and pack the seeds. Every year we have over 1000 people show up. The event is free at the local community college and there’s events upstairs and downstairs. It’s an incredible lively gathering and information.

Resilient Communities

Tweet ThisIt’s a great way to learn about growing food and what’s involved in having access to good healthy local food and why that’s important.

One example there are folks who process herbs and teach how to make tinctures, and how to grow the herbs for oils, medicinal purposes.

Workshops on

• Herbs
• ferment your food
• Sourdough
• how to raise chickens
• well taught by experts in the field all from the Valley

So this is the 3rd? 4th?

We started 4 years ago this is our 4th!

Do you want to talk about what tips or tricks have made it successful as it keeps growing?

The main thing is we didn’t limit to a sharing of seeds

help people get access to quality food for their health and their families health

So we made it about sharing

• seeds
• information
• skills

inclusion of workshops

The whole event is free! That’s important!

We don’t sell anything so there are...