Seedy Saturday 2026 Workshop Schedule

Location: Hamilton Room / Wentworth Room


10:15 AM – Seed Saving
Presenter: Kahnekanoron Collective
Location: Hamilton Room
Learn about Indigenous seed keeping practices, medicine plants, and cultural foods such as blue flint corn and yellow flower tobacco. Discover how seeds move from garden to dish and back to seed.


11:15 AM – Summer in a Jar
Presenter: Halton Master Gardener Tinamarie Jones
Location: Hamilton Room
Learn how to make the most of an abundant garden harvest through canning and dehydrating, including tomatoes and herbs for teas.


12:15 PM – Traditional Healing Plants
Presenter: Gail Whitlow, Ancestral Voices Healing Centre
Location: Hamilton Room
Learn from Knowledge Keeper Gail about plants that have been used as healing treatments for generations.


1:15 PM – Soil Health
Presenter: Amanda Hunter (The Worm Wrangler)
Location: Hamilton Room
Healthy soil is the foundation of thriving plants. Discover how soil functions as a living ecosystem and learn simple, effective ways to build soil health through composting, mulching, and natural amendments.


2:15 PM – Environmental Urbanist Live: Gardening for a Changing Climate
Presenters: Victoria Bick (Gage Park Children’s Garden), Lennox Toppin (local gardener), Charlie Briggs (Hamilton Naturalists’ Club)
Moderator: Jason Allen, Environmental Urbanist radio show
Location: Hamilton Room
Join a panel discussion on challenges and solutions for gardening in a warming climate. Learn about resilient plants, water management, and how considerations of native vs. introduced species are changing in our growing region.

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