Puget Sound Seed Sourcing Training

Join us for hands-on training designed for individuals involved in sourcing and processing seeds. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to the field, this day-long training will equip you with essential knowledge and practical skills to optimize your seed-sourcing practices.

Hosted by the Puget Sound Seed Partnership, the training will combine theoretical and hands-on knowledge to enable natural resource professionals from all backgrounds to source seeds, allowing for more genetically diverse and locally sourced seed collecting.

Forest Shomer from Inside Passage will be the main presenter, sharing his extensive expertise in seed sourcing and identification, collection techniques, and seed processing and storage.

Please note: to make the training accessible to all, we will initially limit the number of people who can sign up from a single organization. If more than three people register from an organization, we will move additional registrants to a waitlist until closer to the training date. We are actively monitoring the waitlist and will update waitlist participants by September 18th. 

If funding is a barrier to your participation, please contact [email protected] to inquire about travel stipends. 

Speaker Bio

Forest Shomer began saving seeds in 1969 and has worked as a full-time seed professional since 1973. He founded the Abundant Life Seed Foundation in 1975, and later established Inside Passage Seeds, listing hundreds of species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and grasses native to the coastal Northwest from SE Alaska to northern California. Over the past 50 years, he has led more than 200 workshops on seed saving and genetic diversity, and gave the keynote address for the 2012 Northwest Permaculture Convergence and the Regenerations (Kauai) Seed and Plant Exchange in 2013. In 2018, he co-founded the nonprofit Olympic Peninsula Prairies. Forest has also served his community in leadership roles in Sacred Agriculture, Parks Commission, County Noxious W**d Board, Native Plant Society, and other ecology-centered ways for nearly 50 years.

Funding

This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under assistance agreement PC-01J22301 through the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency or the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use.

Host or Publisher Northwest Natural Resource Group