Heirloom Everything: From Seed to Seed
On Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:15pm, Ken Greene will give a lecture presentation on this subject ~ Heirloom Everything: From Seed to Seed.
The venue is the Fireplace Lounge of the George F. Shepard Student Center which is located on the Middletown campus of Orange County Community College at the corner of South Street and East Conkling Avenue. Parking is available in back of the student center. This program is free and open to the public and registration is not necessary.
Ken Greene is the co-founder with Doug Muller of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, an artisan seed company and heirloom seed farm in Accord, NY, devoted to producing heirloom seed for home gardeners as well as fostering a regional seed-saving community for the Northeast. Open-pollinated seeds are grown, saved, and packed by hand. “Seeds are living histories,” says Greene. “The best way to keep their cultural and genetic legacies alive is to get the seeds into the dirty hands of caring gardeners.” During the evening, he will also discuss simple seed saving tips to try at home and which beautiful and tasty heirlooms can be easily grown.
Ken Greene’s talk and slide show showcases American gardening heritage through elegant, humorous, and telling images from the HV Seed Library’s collection of antique and vintage seed catalogs, seed packs, and ephemera, and explores the beauty and diversity of Northeast heirlooms. He will cover heirloom varieties, seed stories, seed saving, and the modern importance of preserving regional and historic varieties. In addition, he will give a little history on how the concept of this truly green local business, the Hudson Valley Seed Library, became reality and explain how gardening with heirlooms is healthful and complements sustainability.
This event is produced by Cultural Affairs to which questions may be addressed: (845)341-4891; [email protected]; www.sunyorange.edu/culturalaffairs
Ken Greene has a BS in Environmental Studies from Wesleyan University and an MA in Special Education from SUNY New Paltz. He has given presentations, workshops, and interviews for All Things Considered, National Heirloom Exposition, Culinary Institute of America, Horticultural Society of New York, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Stone Barns, and Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners.
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