I would like to begin by thanking all the amazing members of our wonderful group. Over the past 4 years, we have collectively grown and gifted over 12 thousand native plants by my estimate. In addition, I know that our many projects continue to flourish all over our beautiful city. Now that I think about it, maybe our most important legacy has been the hundreds of people we have inspired. As you probably know by now, I’ve decided to take a break from organizing the 2025 seedsitting session as I focus on my studies and think about next steps, but by no means am I ready to stop what we have started together.
Our group has been organized as a transformative action-based learning model: a praxis, and each year I have made changes to the way we meet, organize and collaborate. Taking a break has allowed me to think about missing components, and one outcome has been the recent seed-cleaning/ winter-sowing workshop I developed. I will probably run it a few times to make sure it has a solid foundation but it paves the way for the last component: seed collecting workshop.
Our 2025/2026 season will begin in August with a series of seed-collecting workshops in my garden and we’ll work our way through the cleaning before we get to the winter-sowing part. If you’d like to be a part of the next year’s cohort, watch out for the announcement to sign up that will go out in June.
And I know that you’re all thinking that June 2025 is just too far away and you want to gather with friends much sooner than that! I have great news for you!
As much as I’ve tried to scale back my organizing, I’ve still started a whole lot of seedlings for one of my favorite conservation groups: Don’t Mess with the Don. They are leading conservation efforts in the Don Valley area of Toronto and will have access to greenhouse space to grow native plants. I have offered to provide seedlings that I am growing indoors to give them a jump start. I will have a separate post about DMWTD and the great work they do, so this post serves as a simple introduction.
Once the greenhouse operation ramps up, DMWTD will need lots of seasoned gardeners like you to divide and pot up seedlings so I will be calling on you to join if you can.
For privacy reasons, we don’t keep contact information from previous years.
If you’d like to sign up to be a part of our 2025 cohort to volunteer for dividing and potting up seedlings for the DMWTD project, please sign up using this form:
Looking forward to seeing you all so very soon!
