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I am so excited to be going to Zambia again from March 28th-April 19th, 2017! Each time I go, I have a mission. This time is to renovate some Flats and open SEEDS B&B Mongu. I was fortunate to have had Shaun Clever take a suitcase with 50lbs of things I will need to open this bed

I keep saying that SEEDS is taking me a long for the ride. All I have to do is think it and it comes! I was so surprized last week when our manager Fredrick sent me some pictures of our new gate. He is fortunate enough to have been given land from the Barotseland King many years ago a

  The first person to donate $20.00 or more to our project The Silozi Seed Bank will win 2 adult tickets to the Ontario Science Centre, a $44.00 value, valid to January 21st, 2017. What a great Christmas present for  the kids over the holidays! Please click on the following link

A BIG Thank You to all for coming! We had about 135 people and by the feed back I am getting, everyone had a great time. Thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers for your hard work.  Bendale B.T.I, for the great food, Mill St. Breweries, Southbrook Vineyards, The Big Carrot for savin

The question has been asked, “Why not just encourage seed saving of their native foods in the communities of Africa”. I can only speak of the communities where we work in Zambia but I am sure that there are similar problems throughout all of the African countries and other impoverishe

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanks Giving and want to carry on the festivities. Join us  this Saturday, Oct.15th for a fun night out dancing, games, prizes, great food and two great Bands. $5.00 organic beer from Mill St. and wine from Southbrook Vineyards. $3.00 each for your choice

I am not a big watcher of television but if I do sit and relax, which I am told to do more of, I watch the documentary channel, TVO, educational or travel shows. I saw a talk by Hans Rosling https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling who is a statistician who has been studying poverty

  The University of Toronto has a wonderful program where people can submit problems they would like solved by the first year engineering students in the school. SEEDS has submitted projects both in 2015 and 2016 and we are so pleased with the results. This year we asked the team

Even though there has been a drought in many countries of Africa, including Zambia we are still growing! Near Kalabo, Mwualuka has planted 3257 tomatoe plants in his village of Luoke West. 2000 of those plants are ready now and the rest will be ready in June. Mwualuka will sell the to

  This poster is courtesy of Lily, a grade 11 student at The Bishop Strachan School in Toronto. Thank you so much Lily for this beautiful poster for Mother’s Day. Wishing all Mother’s a special day!