Guest: Sal Dominelli, Sweet Rock Farms
Big Idea:
Saving Your own seeds makes you part of the solution for worldwide food security.
Topic Today:
“It took a pandemic for us to realize that things are not going to continue on the way they were and that we need to be more self-reliant. So, as a country and as a province and as a community, we need to start growing more of our own food and we need to start saving more of our own seeds because seeds are the base of the food chain.”
Sal is a seed farmer on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. He has been gardening and farming for 25 years so he has loads of ideas to help us grow better food. “It’s really important to have some local food resilience, and the base of the food chain is seeds.”
Sal makes a living selling seeds but he also wants us to save our own open pollinated seeds. “If we all do a little bit, it’ll make our food system way more resilient to the food shocks that are most surely going to come in the next few years.”
References:
BC Eco-seed co-op https://www.bcecoseedcoop.com/
Contact Sal: [email protected]
Sweet Rock Farms website: https://www.sweetrockfarm.ca/
Instagram: @sweetrockfarm
phone: 250-713-9041
Sweet Rock Farm Varieties mentioned on the podcast include: Jade bean, Black cocoa bean, Black mountain Watermelon, Ardwina tomatoes, Black cherry tomatoes, Waltham broccoli, Red Russian Kale, dinosaur kale.
