10:30 - 11:30 Food Sovereignty: Here and Internationally
Join Kate Green for a discussion of the food sovereignty movement around the world ("the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems."), including an update on the campaign to ban terminator seeds here in Canada.

1:00 - 2:00 Season Extension Techniques
Think our Canadian growing season is too short? Kyla Dixon-Muir doesn't think so! Let Kyla inspire you with simple, affordable techniques to extend the growing season and increase your food production.

2:00 - 3:00 Edible Weeds
You know all of those pesky weeds that you pull out of your vegetables plots each summer? Well, some of those are food too! Dagmar Baur shows us which weeds are really healthy culinary treats, along with tips on how to find and prepare them.

Seed Starting How To - from 10:30 on
join the expert gardeners form Scadding Court Community Centre's greenhouse as they show you the tips they have picked up form starting thousands of seedlings over the past 6 years of their garden program. This happens in their own greenhouse, right outside Seedy Saturday (you can't miss it) and will start around 10:30 and continue for most of the day, in 30 minute intervals. Drop in whenever you want!

Plus: Mini Garden Film Festival

from 10:30 to 2:00. All films will be foloowed by a short discussion, often with the film maker. Exact times of the films to be posted at Seedy Saturday.

1. Alternare: Real Alternatives for the countryside and the campesinos, a look at how the winter habitat of the Monarch butterfly is being conserved in Mexico followed by a discussion of how our gardens can help to protect these beautiful insects. (with Carmen Tellez)

2. School Food Gardens: Experiences from Jackman and Winchester Public Schools (with Zora Ignjatovic)

3. Films from Riverdale Meadow Community Garden: ColdFrames and more! (with Kyla Dixon-Muir)

4. Ethiopia: Feeding the Future (with Kate Green)

5. From Seed to Seed (with Roberta Stimac)