Celebrate the summer harvest and check out how you can be food secure by growing at home, indoors and outdoors in the winter. Beyond the Harvest Fall Fair will be held at Sechelt Public Library on Sept. 7, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bring in a stem of your sunflowers that you are growing in your garden and enter a draw to win a prize (two categories: kids up to 13 and 14 and older) as well as gardeners are encouraged to bring in any produce from their garden: vegetable, fruit or flower to be judged for prizes.
To address food security for the winter months, come and learn how to preserve the summer harvest, how to grow microgreens and sprouts through displays and demonstrations, and there will be seedlings and seeds that you can take home for your winter garden. Red Russian Kale, Blue Curly Kale, Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Merveille des Quatre Saisons Lettuce (four-season lettuce) are the seedlings available. All these seedlings started with seed that was saved on the Sunshine Coast and all are winter hardy.
The Sunshine Coast Seed Collective will be there with seed cleaning equipment to clean seeds and help you learn about how to save seed. They are there to answer any questions.
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