Join Freddie Gillespie for a hands-on seed cleaning workshop. Seeds come in all shapes and sizes; some will fall easily from a brittle capsule, others are encased in a hard-to-break pod, or coated in flyaway-fluff. Freddie will go over the various techniques and equipment needed to clean different types of seeds. We will be cleaning the seeds collected during part one of our Seed Series on October 4, all from native species that support at-risk pollinators. While we work, we will chat, share tips, and dream of next year’s gardens!
The bulk of the cleaned seeds from this workshop will be saved for part three of our Seed Series, Winter Seed Sowing, and for distribution to community groups, but participants will be able to take some samples home.
Freddie Gillespie is a member of Biodiversity Through Pollination and Southborough’s Stewardship Committee. For the past decade she has worked with Robert Gegear to establish the Beecology Research Garden at Breakneck Hill Conservation Land. Using this garden as a source, she has developed a seed distribution program which resulted in the distribution of over 2,000 packets of 63 species of native plants from Dr. Gegear’s plant list for at-risk pollinators last year.