Making plans to transition our seeds to another home
BY CATE HENDERSON Providence Village is a heart-felt idea that is moving forward at 1200 Princess St, the Motherhouse of the Sisters of Providence....
Seedy Saturday 2016 was record-breaking
Photo: Andreas FrantzeskosEvery year Seedy Saturday gets bigger but this March, it got huge. More than 600 took part in the one-day seedfest that is...
April 2016 news and volunteer opportunity
The Heirloom Seed Sanctuary is busy on Facebook and occasionally sends email updates too. Here is the latest. You can read this one here. You can...
Are the seeds contemplating their future, as I am?
BY CATE HENDERSON We are coming to realize that plants do have an organ similar to our mammal brain. This organ is connected to a nervous system of...
Weather issues more abundant than crops
BY GARDENER CATE HENDERSON This year’s growing season brought far more climatic challenges than we like to see, although it’s easy to forget that...
Growing sweetie tomatoes with growing minds
BY CATE HENDERSON Train up a child in the way s/he should go: and when s/he is old, s/he will not depart from it.Proverbs 22:6 The Heirloom Seed...
The best Saturday in the year?!
BY CATE HENDERSON Kingston Seedy Saturday is upon us, and for those of us who grow at least some of our own food, March 14 is a very exciting day!...
Look to the seed – a spirits-up ecology story
BY CATE HENDERSON Those of you who were in attendance at the spring equinox celebration may remember our meditation on the seed – that through...
The perfect garden plan
Cate Henderson works up the Heirloom Seed Sanctuary's annual garden planBY CATE HENDERSON Many gardeners enjoy planning their gardens over the...
The business of rest
BY CATE HENDERSON The idea of rest is somewhat deceiving. We know as human beings that when we sleep we appear to others to be resting, to be...