📬 Order Updates 🌱 Sowing Tips 📣 Event News

Adaptive Seeds Newsletter - February 2020

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Winter Dreaming

Positions Available + Order Fulfillment + Sowing + Events

Wow! February already! 2020 sure has started with a flurry of activity, news, and events both here on our little farm and in the world at large. Let's all pause a moment and take a deep breath, shall we?

* just breathe *
* innnnnnnnnn * oooooouuuuuuut *

Okay, with that, time for some announcements! We've had a number of significant staff changes the last few weeks and currently need to fill two Seed Packer / Order Picker positions as soon as possible. For more info, click here.

Due to these unforeseeable staff changes, order fulfillment has slowed a bit and we are currently shipping orders 6-10 business days after we receive them. We will close that window down to 4-7 business days as quickly as we can. If you ever have any concerns about your order, or need to make a rush request, please email us (questions@adaptiveseeds.com) and we can make it happen.

Sowing Tips: Timing and Lighting

And that is the perfect segway to remind you that the most common mistakes made when sowing in early winter through spring is poor timing (usually sowing too soon) and/or with poor lighting. When it comes to figuring out your timing we recommend the planting calculator provided at Margaret Roach's 'A Way to Garden' website. Don't know your last spring frost date? Find it here. For us, we don't sow our first round of summer annuals until the end of February or early March, about 8 weeks before they head outside. For more tips, check out our February 2019 newsletter in our archive.

up your seed-starting game, with seed-mad joe lamp’l (aka joe gardener)

As for lighting, us farmers tend to have propagation houses with heat tables and germination chambers. For those of you sowing in your home and using lights to get those plants started, Margaret Roach recently did a whole podcast with Joe Lamp'l about seed-starting and the results of his indoor lighting experiments. They talk about lights, where to position them and how long to run them, about watering and gear to make it all work smoother, and more. Having no direct experience with indoor plant lighting ourselves, we found this interview quite interesting. Check it out.

EVENTS

Organic Seed Growers Conference

February 12-15 -- Corvallis, OR

This biennial gathering is this week! We'll be tabling, facilitating and presenting, listening to others, and we're even a stop on the tour. Looks like registration is still open for the main conference event. Looking forward to it! For more info, click here.

Culinary Breeding Network Variety Showcase

February 15 -- Portland, OR

An interactive mixer designed to build community among plant breeders, seed growers, farmers, chefs, produce buyers, food journalists, consumers and more. We'll be teaming up with our good friend and talented chef Tiffany Norton of Eugene, Oregon's Party Downtown. Our table will feature our unique Pie Pumpkin Party, Open Oak Party Mix Dent Corn, and some of our pepper breeding projects. Find details and tickets here.

Oregon State University Small Farms Conference

February 22 -- Corvallis, OR

This is probably our favorite conference of the year. It's local, it's packed full of a wide-range of informative sessions facilitated by small farmers. We'll be there with a table as well so come by and say Hi! Registration closes February 12.

BEEvent Pollinator Conference

March 7 -- Albany, OR

Linn County Master Gardeners present the 6^th annual BEEvent with sessions on planting a home garden to attract bees, The Oregon Bee Atlas, pollinating flies and blue orchard mason bees, and more! We'll have a table so come say Hi! Learn more and register here.

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