Join experienced vegetable, herb, and seed growers Ira Wallace and Pam Dawling for an afternoon of workshops and a book signing. Pam Dawling will present on Year Round Vegetable Production and Ira Wallace will present on Seedkeeping, Cooperation and Community Building: Everyday Acts of Resistance in Agriculture.

There will be opportunity for Q&A, snacks and refreshments provided by The Nashville Food Project, and a book signing to follow.

Learn more: https://www.tnlocalfood.org/calendar/growing-community-resilience

Workshops:

Seedkeeping, Cooperation and Community Building: Everyday Acts of Resistance in Agriculture by Ira Wallace

Black and brown people are integral as workers in food and agriculture but are largely missing from the stories of cooperative organizing in agriculture, heirloom seeds and seed savers. Be inspired by historic accounts of black cooperative action and learn how tradition, taste, place and storytelling can work to preserve biodiversity and reclaim the place of black and brown people in issues of food sovereignty, farming, heirloom varieties and regional cuisine today.

Year Round Vegetable Production by Pam Dawling

An introduction to strategies and techniques for making year round vegetable production possible. This workshop starts with caring for the soil, which is vital in intensive cropping. Crop rotations, cover crops, compost making and organic mulches are introduced. Direct sowing, transplanting, succession planting and inter-planting are explained. Season Extension in hot weather and cold weather is covered, with various options for crop protection. A cold-hardiness table of winter vegetables is provided to help growers decide which crops to grow.