Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
9:00–10:00 – Opening Ceremony
• Seed Identification – Activity
• Introductions
• Honoring Seeds – Intro by Rowen White
10:00-11:00 – Culture, Health and Origins
• Indigenous Plant Origins
• Health Impacts: Family and Culture
• Loss of Biodiversity
• Seed Industry History
• Magic of Seeds, Basic Seed Anatomy
• Germination Activity
11:00 – 12:00 - Quality Seed Production and Harvest
• Flower Anatomy, Plant reproduction, Pollination
• Isolation Distance, Population Size
• Flower Dissection – Activity
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 - Basic Plant Science
• Plant Families, Taxonomy
• Flower Anatomy, Plant reproduction, Pollination
• Flower Dissection- Activity
2:00-3:00 - Quality Seed Production and Harvest
• Isolation Distance, Population Size
3:00 - 3:20 Break
3:20 - 4:00 Guest Speaker or another topic
4:00 - 5:00 - Breakdown and discussion the Great Lakes Indigenous Seed Keepers Network: How your community would like to participate, and what information and tools would be useful to strengthen seed saving efforts in this community. What are some
community challenges and goals?
5:00 - Dinner
Red Lake Local Food Initiative - September 14th
Honoring Seed Workshop – Day 2
9:00-9:30
• Re introductions
• New thoughts on Community Seed Projects
9:30–10:15 – Plant Breeding and Seed Selection
• Hybrid/Heirloom
• Squash and Corn hand pollination
• Seed selecting - Phenotypic Selection - activity
• Organic Breeding
• Wet fermentation Activity
10:15-11:00 - Harvest and Storage
• Phenotype selection – Activity
• Threshing and Winnowing beans and seed cleaning – Activity
• Processing (curing/drying)
• Storage and Record Keeping
• Seed Libraries and seed issues – patenting, GMOs
11:00-11:30 –Guest Speaker ?
11:30-12:30 Discussion continued about Regional Seed Keepers:
• Moving Forward, next steps.
12:30–1:15 Lunch
1:15 – Closing ceremony
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