Seedy Sunday or Seedy Saturday is a catchphrase used for events that bring together seed savers from a community with scientists, agronomists, and lay people, to maintain and develop the open pollinated and heritage crop cultivars that are a resource in the community. The community seed collection that is thus maintained can contribute to food security. The titles Seedy Saturday and Seedy Sunday are dedicated to the public domain.
The heart of a Seedy Sunday or Seedy Saturday event is the swapping and sale of seeds or other propagation material for plant cultivars that do not require high-input agriculture. These include public-domain cultivars that have been preserved or developed by individuals or families. Sharing information about the social, cultural and culinary aspects of those cultivars is an important component. Providing education about techniques for seed-saving, small-scale agriculture and horticulture, and about local, national and international laws that affect public-domain crop plants can also be an important part of the event.
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Famous quotes containing the words seedy and/or sunday:
“If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don’t care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“A good husband is healthy and absent.”
—Japanese proverb, quoted in Sunday Times (London, December 16, 1990)