2026 Two-Day Seed School with Snake River Seed Co-op - NEW!

Wasatch Community Gardens and Snake River Seed Cooperative invite you to a Two-Day Seed School. Whether you’re looking to increase your own self-sufficiency or to add seed production to your market garden or farm offerings, there has never been a better time to relearn this vital part of our agricultural heritage.  The special event will cover a range of basics to grow high-quality organic seeds, including: • Seed Biology    • Flowers and pollination     • Growing seeds    • Harvesting and processing seeds     • Seed storage     • Seed literacy     • Wild seed harvesting & native seed production     • Organic weed, pest, and disease control in seed crops     • Selection and on-farm crop improvement     • Opportunities for selling your seeds This school will also include special guest speakers Joseph Lofthouse (author of Landrace Gardening), and Rikki Longino (Salt Lake Library Garden Coordinator & Mobile Moon Co-op). It will also include field trips to Grand Prismatic Seed to learn about native & dye plant seed production & get hands on practice with seed harvesting, and True Leaf Market to see large-scale seed packaging & distribution in action. Lunch will be provided both days, with check-in beginning at 8:30am with snacks and coffee. Seed School starts with an optional Field Day on Sunday September 20th, which you must register separately for. Check back soon for more details. This event is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP). When September 21, 2026 9:00 AM to September 22, 2026 4:30 PM Location 629 East 800 SouthWasatch Community Gardens CampusEducation Cottage (Blue Building)Salt Lake City, UT 84102 Contact Phone: 801-359-2658 ext. 27 Email: [email protected] This calendar listing is brought to you by NowPlayingUtah.com, Utah’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Utah Cultural Alliance.