<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-cbf54f67-7fff-22b2-6369-a9a0b26eeb89" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library will be hosting a Seed-Saving Panel on Monday, October 17th at 6:30 PM. This event will be held via Zoom and in-person at the library. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Michigan State University Educator, Abbey Palmer, and Queen City Seed Library's Mike Riesterer are back to share more seed-saving tips and tricks. This time, they will demonstrate how to process seeds from beans and squash, showcase some of their seed-saving tools, and answer questions! This informal panel's discussion topic, how to save and store seeds for the next planting season, will interest beginners and experts alike. Patron's own stories of seed saving are welcome and encouraged! Join in person or virtually at </span><a href="https://bit.ly/3M6jL5N" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://bit.ly/3M6jL5N</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abbey Palmer serves as a Community Food Systems Educator based in Alger County and works with schools and farms throughout the Upper Peninsula. She coordinates educational activities for people of all ages at MSU Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center (UPREC). Her areas of focus include land-based learning for K-14 students and their teachers, season extension, food policy councils, and small-scale seed system resilience. Abbey holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in fiction and a BA in Literature from Northern Michigan University. She has worked in food systems since 2011 and spent several years engaged in diversified vegetable production using off-grid farming methods.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mike Riesterer is a volunteer who helped establish the Queen City Seed Library at Peter White Public Library. He helps to maintain the Queen City Seed Library and its Facebook page; @queencityseedlibrary. Mike works with Peterwhite Public Library and volunteers to host annual seed swaps in the spring. </span></p><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">For more information, visit <a href="http://www.alpenalibrary.org">www.alpenalibrary.org</a>. </font></span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><b><br></b></i></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif"><i><b>Jessica Luther (she/her) </b></i><b><i> </i></b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><address><span style="font-family:helvetica">Interim Director</span></address>
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