GATHERING

Piscataqua Seed Project and Seacoast Permaculture present the 6th Seed to Soil Garden Conference, Saturday March 22 from 9am – 5pm at Tuckaway Farm, 4 Captain Smith Emerson Road in Lee NH. Join a community of gardeners working to preserve our agricultural heritage and share their love of gardening to all generations.

ABOUT

At Seed to Soil, we celebrate our love of plants and our common desire to steward the land, be it a small urban plot or an expansive community garden. Whether you’re just planting your first seeds or tending a thriving homestead, this gathering is a place to learn practical skills, share wisdom, and experience hands-on learning.. Through workshops and conversations, we cultivate a deeper connection to the land and each other.

The conference is open to school gardeners, teachers, community gardeners, home gardeners and anyone looking to connect with other gardeners in our community. Tickets are $30 for community members, $18 students/low income. We also offer Supporter option for $45 for those who are able and wish to give more to help support the conference, the seed bank and other pro-gardening activities in the area.

SCHEDULE

This years conference will feature several round table discussions and hands-on workshops.

MORNING
9:00. Conference Registration opens
9:30. Welcome and introductions
10:00. Cooking demonstration with Linh Avens and Elizabeth Haskett: Dock Seed Cornbread from the Ground Up.
​11:00. Seed swap and community group sharing.

​LUNCH
11:30. Potluck lunch and cornbread. Please bring a dish to share that serves 8-10 people.

AFTERNOON
12:30 – 1:30. Workshop 1 with Akilah Campbell. The  Zuri Wingi Beautiful Abundance Heritage Harvest Project.
1:45 – 2:45.  Workshop 2 with Alison Magill. Eat the Weeds! Inviting Wild Plants into your Kitchen and Garden.
2:45  - Closing Circle.

PRESENTERS

Linh Aven is a chef, a baker, a farmer, and a scientist. She weaves all of these threads together at Dandelion Forest Farm, a highly diversified agroforestry farm in Nottingham, NH offering CSAs, workshops, and a farm to dinner series called the Farmer’s Table.

Elizabeth Haskett is an experienced chef, running her own restaurant in Brooklyn, NY who then switched gears diving into natural and biodynamic farming. She currently co-chefs at the Farmer’s Table, has launched an astrology practice called Thema Mundi, makes a line of apothecary products, and homesteads in Raymond, NH.

Hannah Traggis is a plant biologist, plant breeder and farmer working at the intersection of food systems and climate resilience. Through her work with Aurelia's Garden (https://aureliasgarden.org) and The Marion Institute, she employs agroecological philosophies to cultivate land stewardship that improves the environment and to grow food for emergency hunger relief outlets. Through her work at the Freed Seed Federation and Aurelia's Garden, she conducts and coordinates crop variety trial research and plant breeding projects to identify current plant varieties that perform well in northeast organic production systems, preserve culturally important crops from the region, and to breed new varieties that are better adapted to New England and meet the needs of the northeastern farming community. Currently, the Freed Seed Federation is also building a Seed Bank and increasing their community-shared seed processing infrastructure.

Alison Magill is an herbalist, seed saver, ecologist and forager. She leads wild plant walks and workshops at Tuckaway Farm and other Seacoast locations. She loves to teach people how to  incorporate wild and healing foods into their kitchen in order to create a stronger and more vibrant state of health for ourselves and our families.  She also runs a level 1 herbal apprenticeship program for those wishing to dive deeper into the world of plants as medicine.

Akilah Campbell  has over 15 years of experience in farming, teaching, curriculum & program development, and community organizing. She is a former co-founder of a community center that focused on farming education, food justice, and social justice issues, where she developed and implemented programs in these areas.  Akilah is currently working on the Zuri Wingi Heritage Harvest Project, to bring crops and agricultural education from the African Diaspora and Indigenous Population to the region. She is also is a member of the Wagon Hill Farm & Garden where she was the Education and Community Outreach Coordinator, a Board Member, and a Food Pantry Volunteer. She received degrees in Wildlife Management/Ecology and Education from the University of New Hampshire.