IN PERSON CLASS: Seeds of Resilience

When: Wednesday, November 18th from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Where: Sow True Seed - 243 Haywood Street Asheville 28801 Course Description: Seeds of Resilience is an informative class about seed saving practices. Plants have the amazing ability to shift and change in many wonderful ways; a super power in our volatile climate. This class encourages you to embrace diversity, adaptation, and resilience by saving seeds in our garden and on our farms. We'll explore accessible skills like observation and selection, as well as tactics to generate diversity and encourage cross pollination. Seed saving is a fun adventure that can also have a big impact on the success of your garden! Instructor Bio: Chris Smith is executive director of the Utopian Seed Project, a crop-trialing nonprofit working to celebrate food and farming. Within this work, Chris collaborates on The Heirloom Collard Project, hosts a seasonal Trial to Table event series, and publishes Crop Stories, a crop-specific multimedia project. His book, The Whole Okra, won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2020, and he is the co-host of The Okra Pod Cast. In 2023 Chris received the Organic Educator Award from The Organic Growers School and was named a Champion of Conservation by Garden & Gun. Chris is a Grow Appalachia 2025 Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellow. His second book, Saved by Seeds, will be published in fall of 2026 by Chelsea Green Publishing. More info at utopianseed.org. Further information and reminders will be sent out via email Spots are limited