April 21, 2007

eedy Saturday was today and I attended for the second year. Seedy Saturday is sponsored by the Seeds of Diversity Canada, which is like a swap-meet for seed collectors and others interested in plant biodiversity, heritage gardening, organic gardening, and of course seeds..  Last year was the first year for our area and I am so glad we are continuing to have it again.

The magazine gets well received there each year and it is just plain fun. Amy and Mary attended for the first time this year. Amy diligently has been saving pepper seeds to trade.

Picture Above: Mary (left) and Amy (right) sorting and packing up some of Amy's seeds to exchange

Picture Below: Me gabbing with some nice people about how to save seeds from the seeds I gave them

There are more chicks hatching today. 17 look like they are pipping out. Today is day 23 and they are supposed to hatch at day 21, so that means the incubator is too cold and it is not heating evenly as certain areas were hatching before others. If I use this incubator again, it needs to be about 2 degrees warmer and forget what the books say. But due to the cold incubator, this is why they are a slow hatch. At least we are getting some live chicks from it.

Mary and I went to see the bee man yesterday afternoon to get information on hives, when the beekeepers society meets and pick me up some bricks of beeswax and lip balm. I needed lip balm so badly after my cold it was not even funny. I usually make it, but I almost lunged into his product racks to retrieve some. Raspberry flavor. We inquired about "Colony Collapse Disorder" problems up here and thus far, it is not up here. That is good!! If it is Genetically Modifed crops which is causing alot of the grief elsewhere, we may not have them as we do not have any commercial grain or vegetable crops within hundreds of miles of here (not large scale like in the States).