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Featured Seed Company:
Full Circle Seeds
Full Circle Seeds is operated by Mary-Alice Johnson and
Marika Nagasaka. Full Circle is part of ALM Farm located in Sooke,
on Vancouver Island, which also grows vegetables for local markets
and fine restaurants. Though a beautiful location, the cold climate
in Sooke makes growing much of their seed a challenge
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Mary-Alice has been growing seeds for 20 years and has been joined
in the past few years, by apprentice-turned-partner, Marika.
Full Circle Seeds offers close to 200 varieties of seeds including
vegetables, flowers, and herbs, including many rare and heirloom
varieties. Both Mary-Alice and Marika have no doubt about the
importance of growing seed for the local market and they can be
found at all the Vancouver Island Seedy Saturdays as a well as a
few on the mainland.
Mary loves to grow seed that has been given to her by friends or
from those who bring it from their country of origin. Marika
favours growing lettuce seed - which make up a good portion of the
seeds Full Circle offers. Though both experienced seed growers,
Mary-Alice and Marika appreciate all they learn each season,
constantly becoming better seed growers. And they also like to
share that knowledge with others. Both Mary-Alice and Marika
teach local workshops and ALM farm has been training apprentices
for fifteen years. Mary-Alice also teaches an organic growing
course at Camosun College in Victoria and writes regularly for
the Canadian Organic Grower.
ALM Farm is Certified Organic by the Islands' Organic Producers
Association (#401). For more information about Full Circle Seeds,
visit:
www.fullcircleseeds.com.
BC Seed Growing Manual
BC Seed grower Patrick Steiner has published his first seed growing
book: Small-Scale Organic Seed Production. This publication is not so much a
"how-to" of seed growing as it is a "what to expect" when embarking on a
journey of seed growing ... more
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