Seeds of Solidarity Funding Drive
Pre-Registration Required! No walk-ups.

As conditions continue to deteriorate in Sudan and Gaza, it is our duty as workers of the land to stand in solidarity with those experiencing the brunt of colonial violence. Together, Guelph 4 Palestine and 65 farmers accross Turtle Island are launching the Seeds of Solidarity Funding Drive.

As people who work with the land, we know the abundance the earth can provide. Together, communities of food growers, land workers, medicine makers, artists and other food community members are funding towards two vital campaigns to support food sovereignty in the face of genocide.

We are raising funds for (1) WE MUST PLANT (@sudaneseresistancefront @sudansolidaritycollective). A grassroots initiative by the Gezira and Managil Farmers' Alliance and supported by organizations like the Sudan Solidarity Collective and Sudanese Resistance Front. (2) REVIVE GAZA’S FARMLAND (@apnorg). A project by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, aiming to rehabilitate Gaza’s agricultural sector and restore local food systems to combat famine and counter the blockade.

Between the 65 farming organizations, our goal is to raise $25,000, which will provide significant support to each initiative. 100% of our proceeds from this event will be donated to this cause.

Join us for Lunch & Cover Cropping Red Poppies

Join us Saturday November 22nd, noon - 4pm for a light lunch in our greenhouse followed by cover cropping red poppies on a portion of our seed farm adjacent to our nursery. Why red poppies? As the national flower of Palestine, red poppies symbolize the Palestinian people's connection to their land, the colors of the Palestinian flag (red, green, black, and white), and the blood of the martyrs within this land. Poppies also play a vital role in agriculture in certain parts of the Middle East and carry a long, complex and often hidden history in Pakistan.

We will gather on our farm to broadcast these seeds as a way of remembering all of the martyrs in Gaza and Sudan. We invite you all to come back in the Spring to witness the poppies in full bloom. We hope our red poppy fields can be be a reminder of our resilience and still the work needed to be done in our fight for revolution.

Our afternoon together will include a fully vegetarian lunch, dhol drumming, and cover cropping on the land. Please anticipate wet and muddy conditions. If you wish to participate in cover cropping please wear boots you are ok with getting muddy, extra socks and shoes and a rain jacket. Our greenhouse will remain open for anyone interested in staying warm and dry.

PLEASE RSVP BY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th so we can have an accurate head count for food. This is a private event with limited capactiy. Please accuratly indicate how many people are in your group when registering. At this time we ask to not share this event with your network until our immediate community has a chance to RSVP.

Marigold U-Pick - Sunday, October 12th

SOLD OUT! Keep an eye out for a marigold pop-up coming verrrrrry soon.

Join us for our second annual Marigold U-pick! Last year was such a joy we had to do it again. Come experience the abundance of our marigolds at the height of their season and pick the blooms straight from our farm in Petaluma, CA.

We will do a quick harvest demo to show how to properly harvest the marigold heads and then we’ll let you harvest as many marigolds as you’d like (last year folks left with 300+ heads each)! This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to make fresh marigold garlands, adorn their dia de los muertos altars, make tinctures, herbal tea blends, dye baths, etc.

This event is for harvesting marigold heads only. Perfect for garlands and alters, not ideal for bouquets. We will most likely be providing an abundance of veggies for you to take home with you as well. One ticket is admission for two people. Children under 16 are allowed to join with an adult for free.

Fresh marigold garlands can last for weeks before drying out and longer if you store them in a fridge. After harvesting your marigold heads we recommend storing them in a cool and dry area until you’re ready to make garlands. You can also hang readay made garlandin a location out of direct sunlight to maximize the fresh blooms. Once marigolds have dried they will retain their color for years if kept out of direct sunlight.

For this event we will be providing snacks and refreshments.

Vegetable U-Pick

As a farm that grows exclusively South Asian heritage vegetables for seed production, we often have way more produce on the farm than we know what to do with. We’re pleased to invite a small group out to our farm to spend the morning harvesting these vegetables and learning about our farm operation. We grow everything 100% organically using regenerative farming practices. Each participant will receive 1 harvest box they can fill up with the following Fall vegetables:

• Ground Cherries / Rasbhari

• Hibiscus

• Karela (Indian Bittergourd)

• Indian Eggplant

• Butterfly Peas

• Ashwaghanda

• Peppers

  • Long Indian

  • Kashmiri

  • Hot Bhajia

  • Gunter

  • Bhut Jolokhia

  • Karahi

  • Aji Amarillo

  • Jwala

  • Plus 3 more unnamed varieties!

• Shiso

• Marigolds

We will do a tutorial of how to properly harvest each variety before letting you all roam our farm and harvest as you please!

A few things to note:

• This is an active, working farm. There may be large equiptment nearby in use, the terrain is uneven and we have no shortage of insects, including bees and wasps. Please wear closed toed shoes, long pants, a sun hat, sunscreen and bring plenty of water.

This year we are growing 3 different South Asian tomatoes and would love to get some feedback from you about what you miss in the tomatoes typical of South Asia! We can then use your feedback to determine which plants to select and save seeds from. Last year we had over 40 of you come by our nursery to taste our Desi Girl Tomatoes and provide feedback plus taste descriptors. We would love to continue to hone in on our OG quintisential tangy tomato, the Desi Girl, as well as begin the seed saving process for our two new varieties! This event is free to attend.

Tomatoes of South Asia are typical more sour than sweet, lending them perfectly to South Asian dishes which typically have notes of sour, sweet, spicy and bitter. When we save seeds from tomatoes that are slighlty more sour than others, the hope is that those seeds will then produce plants with fruit that is slightly more sour and acidic the following year. We will be labeling the fruit from different plants and asking for help to determine which, if any, are more tangy or sour, than the others. This will then allow us to determine which plants to save seeds from (we have over 50 tomato plants of each variety on the farm!)

We will have an endless supply of tomatoes for you to taste and give feedback on! If you’re not too familiar with South Asian tomatoes, you’re still more than welcome to come by and help us nail down some flavor descriptors we can then use for our seed packets and plant signs. Last year we used a “tomato flavor wheel” so folks could provide basic descriptors of the tomatoes’ sweetness, acididty, earthiness, etc. We also need help naming our new tomato varieties!! Obviously nothing will ever compare to our Desi Girl Tomato but we must try!

AND if all this tomato talk is not enough, this event will take place in our nursery where we will also have a small selection of Fall plants available. And in honor of Fall, all our CURRY LEAF TREES WILL BE 50% OFF!

Plants Available: Curry Leaf Tree, Ajwain Patta (Cuban Oregano), Henna, Tulsi ‘Krishna (in 1 gallon pots), Pakistani Mulberry Tree, Red Guava, White Guava

Marigold U-Pick

Join us for our second Marigold U-pick and farm tour! Come experience the abundance of our marigolds at the height of their season and pick the blooms straight from our farm in Petaluma, CA (unceded Coast Miwok Land). We will gather on the land at 10am and start with a farm tour where we will briefly talk about all of our different South Asian seed crops and also share about all the other wonderful Iranian, Palestinian, Chinese and Japanese plants growing on our farm by our farm partners!

Then we will do a quick harvest demo to show how to properly harvest the marigold heads and then we will leave you all to it to harvest as many marigolds as you’d like!! This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to make fresh marigold garlands, tinctures, herbal tea blends, dye baths, etc. Basically, if you are looking for bulk fresh marigolds, this is your chance! We are keeping this group SMALL so that each person can go home with all the marigolds their hearts dream of. Based on the productivity of our marigold plants we may or may not offer this again this season.

A few things to note:

• This is an active, working farm. There may be large equiptment nearby in use, the terrain is uneven and we have no shortage of insects, including bees and wasps. Please wear closed toed shoes, long pants, a sun hat, sunscreen and bring plenty of water.

• This event is for harvesting marigold heads only. In the hopes of getting another flush of marigolds later this season we cannot allow any harvesting of marigold stems for bouquets. No exceptions.

Marigold U-Pick

For the very first time we are opening up our seed farm to the public for a farm tour and Marigold U-pick. Come experience the abundance of our marigolds at the height of their season and pick the blooms straight from our farm in Petaluma, CA (unceded Coast Miwok Land). We will gather on the land at 10am and start with a farm tour where we will briefly talk about all of our different South Asian seed crops and also share about all the other wonderful Iranian, Palestinian, Chinese and Japanese plants growing on our farm by our farm partners!

Then we will do a quick harvest demo to show how to properly harvest the marigold heads and then we will leave you all to it to harvest as many marigolds as you’d like!! This is a great opportunity for anyone looking to make fresh marigold garlands, tinctures, herbal tea blends, dye baths, etc. Basically, if you are looking for bulk fresh marigolds, this is your chance! We are keeping this group SMALL so that each person can go home with all the marigolds their hearts dream of. Based on the productivity of our marigold plants we may or may not offer this again this season.

A few things to note:

• This is an active, working farm. There may be large equiptment nearby in use, the terrain is uneven and we have no shortage of insects, including bees and wasps. Please wear closed toed shoes, long pants, a sun hat, sunscreen and bring plenty of water.

• This event is for harvesting marigold heads only. In the hopes of getting another flush of marigolds later this season we cannot allow any harvesting of marigold stems for bouquets. No exceptions.

Have you had trouble growing a healthy curry leaf tree? Yellowing leaves? Leaves falling off? Simply not growing?

It took many, MANY years of commercially growing these trees to figure out why they are so tricky to grow in the US. In fact, what I learned in my plant science classes at one of the most prestigious agricultural universities in the US, was the reason why my plants were failing. And probably why yours are too.

It wasn’t until I began learning from other seasoned Asian nursery owners that the reason all our potted plants are dying is because of the SOIL! Our agricultural extension offices, land grant universities, and even popular potting soil companies have it all wrong. Other seasoned nursery owners know this all too well.

Over the past year I have been deeply learning alongside my new mentors, and applied what I’ve learned towards our very favorite tree- the curry leaf tree. I’ve been experimenting with numerous soil combinations and observed ~2,000 curry leaf trees bounce back from barely surviving to thriving over the past 6 months (including through a very cold and rainy winter). I can confidently say that I’ve finally pinpointed the perfect soil recipe for your curry leaf tree. This new soil recipe will make your curry leaf tree grow faster, greener and much healthier than you’ve ever seen! You will also never have to be concerned about overwatering your plant ever again (which used to be thought as the main cause of yellowing and sad leaves).

In this virtual Zoom class, I’ll start by discussing why curry leaf trees tend to turn yellow and slowly die and how it’s all related back to the soil. Then I’ll share my custom soil blend I use to get my curry leaf trees from barely surviving to thriving. It’s a simple blend that only requires 4 ingredients. All of which you can easily buy at any home improvement store, gardening store or Amazon. Then I’ll go through my recommended fertilizer program, pruning techniques, and proper pest management. We plan on sharing a recording of the live class for 7 days after the event.

After transplanting your plant into my custom blend, I can guarantee your plants’ leaves will become greener within a week, and will grow faster and healthier than you’ve ever seen. Best of all, everything we discuss can and should be used for all your tropical plants (think mogra, moringa, tamarind, etc.) AND any other potted plants you have around the house or in the garden.

Curry Leaf Masterclass February 25th @ 10am PST

Have you had trouble growing a healthy curry leaf tree? Yellowing leaves? Leaves falling off? Simply not growing?

It took many, MANY years of commercially growing these trees to figure out why they are so tricky to grow in the US. In fact, what I learned in my plant science classes at one of the most prestigious agricultural universities in the US, was the reason why my plants were failing. And probably why yours are too.

It wasn’t until I began learning from other seasoned Asian nursery owners that the reason all our potted plants are dying is because of the SOIL! Our agricultural extension offices, land grant universities, and even popular potting soil companies have it all wrong. Other seasoned nursery owners know this all too well.

Over the past year I have been deeply learning alongside my new mentors, and applied what I’ve learned towards our very favorite tree- the curry leaf tree. I’ve been experimenting with numerous soil combinations and observed ~2,000 curry leaf trees bounce back from barely surviving to thriving over the past 6 months (including through a very cold and rainy winter). I can confidently say that I’ve finally pinpointed the perfect soil recipe for your curry leaf tree. This new soil recipe will make your curry leaf tree grow faster, greener and much healthier than you’ve ever seen! You will also never have to be concerned about overwatering your plant ever again (which used to be thought as the main cause of yellowing and sad leaves).

In this virtual Zoom class, I’ll start by discussing why curry leaf trees tend to turn yellow and slowly die and how it’s all related back to the soil. Then I’ll share my custom soil blend I use to get my curry leaf trees from barely surviving to thriving. It’s a simple blend that only requires 4 ingredients. All of which you can easily buy at any home improvement store, gardening store or Amazon. Then I’ll go through my recommended fertilizer program, pruning techniques, and proper pest management. We plan on sharing a recording of the live session for 7 days after the event.

After transplanting your plant into my custom blend, I can guarantee your plants’ leaves will become greener within a week, and will grow faster and healthier than you’ve ever seen. Best of all, everything we discuss can and should be used for all your tropical plants (think mogra, moringa, tamarind, etc.) AND any other potted plants you have around the house or in the garden.

Have you had trouble growing a healthy curry leaf tree? Yellowing leaves? Leaves falling off? Simply not growing?

It took many, MANY years of commercially growing these trees to figure out why they are so tricky to grow in the US. In fact, what I learned in my plant science classes at one of the most prestigious agricultural universities in the US, was the reason why my plants were failing. And probably why yours are too.

It wasn’t until I began learning from other seasoned Asian nursery owners that the reason all our potted plants are dying is because of the SOIL! Our agricultural extension offices, land grant universities, and even popular potting soil companies have it all wrong. Other seasoned nursery owners know this all too well.

Over the past year I have been deeply learning alongside my new mentors, and applied what I’ve learned towards our very favorite tree- the curry leaf tree. I’ve been experimenting with numerous soil combinations and observed ~2,000 curry leaf trees bounce back from barely surviving to thriving over the past 6 months (including through a very cold and rainy winter). I can confidently say that I’ve finally pinpointed the perfect soil recipe for your curry leaf tree. This new soil recipe will make your curry leaf tree grow faster, greener and much healthier than you’ve ever seen! You will also never have to be concerned about overwatering your plant ever again (which used to be thought as the main cause of yellowing and sad leaves).

In this virtual Zoom class, I’ll start by discussing why curry leaf trees tend to turn yellow and slowly die and how it’s all related back to the soil. Then I’ll share my custom soil blend I use to get my curry leaf trees from barely surviving to thriving. It’s a simple blend that only requires 4 ingredients. All of which you can easily buy at any home improvement store, gardening store or Amazon. Then I’ll go through my recommended fertilizer program, pruning techniques, and proper pest management.

After transplanting your plant into my custom blend, I can guarantee your plants’ leaves will become greener within a week, and will grow faster and healthier than you’ve ever seen. Best of all, everything we discuss can and should be used for all your tropical plants (think mogra, moringa, tamarind, etc.) AND any other potted plants you have around the house or in the garden.