We make every effort to upload the presentation files from the workshops at Free The Seeds and the video recordings where possible. Not every workshop will have a handout you can download. Click on the orange title to download a pdf of the presentation.
Thank you to our workshop teachers for providing these!
Free The Seeds YouTube Channel
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2024
Workshop Presentations & Handouts
Building A Resilient MT Food System with Robin Kelson of AERO/Abundant MT
Building Soil While Raising Great Wool with Carol Treadwell-Steitz of Steitzhof Merinos
Coloring With Natural Pigments with Barnes of Montana Survival Seed
Gardening for Wildlife with Naomi Alhadeff & Eliza Lindley of National Wildlife Federation
Growing More Food with Less Problems with Patti Armbrister of Agrarian Food Web
How ’bout them Apples! with Mark Cometti of Flathead Permaculture
Is Beekeeping For Me? with Angela Tollerson of Flathead Valley Beekeepers Association
Learn to Love Lentils with Julie Laing of Twice as Tasty
Promoting Native Mason Bees with Steve Glutting
Vertical Veg: A Trellis to Make You Jealous with Ellen Mering of 345 Farm
Wheat & Your Health: Whole vs Refined with Luca Mele
2023
Workshop Presentations & Handouts
- Floriculture in the Flathead Valley with Althea Hogle of Phyllary Farm
- How to Start tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, & onions on your windowsill by Michele Keifer
- Beekeeping & Pollinator Friendly Practices with Angela Tollerson of Flathead Valley Beekeeping
- Garden Design: Gorwing Food in Small and Tricky Spaces by Tawnya Rourke Kelly
2022 | 2021 | 2020
Workshop Presentations & Videos
2022
- Building Community Seed Gardens by Robin Kelson (The Good Seed Co.)
- From Seed to Potent Skin Care by Annegret Pfeifer (Kettle Care Organics)
- Community Conversation Panel – Inform Our Future
- Mushroom Cultivation by Shawn McDyre (Sun Hands Farm)
- Pickling Your Garden by Julie Laing (Twice as Tasty)
- Kids’ Cooking Class by Farmer Whitney (Land to Hand MT)
- Seed Starting 101 by Nathan Christianson (Raven Ridge Farm)
2021
2020
- Backyard Four Season Growing
- Breeding Seeds for Our Bioregion 2
- Converting Leftovers to Soil with Worms
- DIY Pollinator Gardening
- Eliminating Single use Plastic
- Gardening for Wildlife
- Getting Started with Fruit Trees
- How to Tell Your Climate Story
- I Stopped Tilling, Now What?
- Left Behind Harvest: Designing a Path for Distributing the Abundance
- Can We Have a Pest-Free Garden?
- Steps to successful seed saving
- Sustainable Beekeeping and Farm Planting Diversity for Pollinators
- Top to Root: Savoring It All
2019 | 2018 | 2017
Workshop Videos & Handouts
2019
2018
2017
- Basics of Bee Keeping
- Introduction to Honey Bees
- Fruit Tree Pruning
- Fruit Tree Pruning notes (PDF)
- Fruit Tree Grafting
- Gathering Native Seeds
- Flathead Grows! Community Seed Library
- Growing Food with Nature
- Composting 101
- Exploring Culinary & Medicinal Herbs
- Nutrify & Detoxify – The Many Faces of Herbs
- Starting with Sourdough
- Biochar
- Ag Financial Management – Planting the Seeds of Success
- Farm Link of Montana
- Farm Link presentation (PDF)
