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Monday, March 31,2014 , I thought of you Carl at 3:35 a.m. as I heard my first rooster crow. You’ll be happy to know the dogs were fairly quiet at that particular moment. “Moment”, is the key word here as I am sure you remember. Here’s to the first of 30 days i

S.O.S. I am jumping a head of myself as I had planned to write the blogs in chronological order so I could tell you the whole story of my trip in April 2014 to Zambia. Unfortunately I found out two weeks after I came home that the bore hole we use to water the resource garden and tree

I was so excited to go to Lusaka, the capital city of Zambia as I was meeting four very special people. Fredrick, our manager for SEEDS based in Mongu whom I had last seen in August 2012. William, a wonderful man who is raising his deceased sister’s children plus his own. Paul,

SEEDS had a table at Christie Pits on May 24,2014 which was the final destination of “The March Against Monsanto”.   It was a huge success for a great cause put on by www.TorontoNonGMOCoalition. org. which is made up of many organizations, of which SEEDS is now includ

  It has now been 3 years since I have been researching Zambia, agriculture, GMO’s, organic gardening, permaculture and SEEDS. Actually 9 years if you include the research I did when I found out my sponsored child lived in Zambia in 2005 when he was 10 years old. On this tr

We did it! Mukutele (Welcome in Silozi) I arrived back home to Canada on May 1st. 16lbs lighter in weight but gained a ton in knowledge. You don’t realize how much you can learn about survival, compassion and hard work until you have seen it done with your own eyes. I spent 30 d

Well, I was all packed last Sunday March 23, 2014, I have my clothes ready for tomorrow March 29, 2014 and I hope I can sleep tonight!   When I deliver this 24lbs of vegetable seeds I will have sent 3,445,785 seeds to Zambia. Each bag is with a binder of “How to Grow”

SEEDS was invited to share in the wonderful Canadian Organic Growers Conference held last Saturday, Feb.22, 2014,  in Toronto. You could tell it was their 8th year running as this event was so well organized. The lunch provided was amazing, the speakers were great and they even had vo

This is the question we hoped to answer from Volume 1 of “Seed-Full Sundays”. How can land best be used to support all creatures and provide food for humans? Can enough food be grown for our population and still maintain natural areas for the other species and the support