Description
Join us for a Field Day at Greentree Naturals in Sandpoint, followed by a 2-day Seed School at the Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center
Registration fee helps to offset food costs. Scholarships are available. Please email casey.snakeriverseeds@gmail.com if you are in need of full or partial financial assistance. No one turned away for inability to pay.
August 10th - August 12th, 2025
Field Day:
Sunday, August 10th at Greentree Naturals Farm in Sandpoint, Idaho
Tour highlights include:
- Small-scale on-farm crop improvement
- Seed harvest and processing
- Season extension techniques
- Diversified enterprises
- Organic on-farm mentorship and education
- And more!
About Greentree Naturals Farm:
Greentree Naturals is a diversified certified organic, small acreage vegetable farm located outside of Sandpoint, Idaho. They showcase a number of characteristics of today's successful small farms: enterprise diversity, innovative marketing, and an interest in production improvement through applied, on-farm university-based research.
Diane and her husband Thom have worked tirelessly since 1990 to steward their 2.5 acre production gardens using succession planting, greenhouse and season extension techniques, and a comprehensive soil fertility program that includes cover cropping, green manures, and crop rotation. Their farm has been certified organic since 1992. Seed saving has been an important aspect of developing successful cold-hardy crops for our northern location on the 48th parallel.
Seed School:
Monday, August 11th & Tuesday, August 12th 9am-3pm
Location: Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center
Whether you’re looking to increase your own self-sufficiency or to add seed production to your market garden or farm offerings, there has never been a better time to relearn this vital part of our agricultural heritage.
The two-day Seed School will cover a range of basics to grow high-quality organic seeds, including:
The two-day Seed School will cover a range of basics to grow high-quality organic seeds, including:
- Seed biology
- Flowers and pollination
- Growing seeds
- Harvesting and processing seeds
- Seed storage
- Seed literacy
- Wild seed harvesting
- Organic weed, pest, and disease control in seed crops
- Adding seed production to your market garden or farm
- Selection and on-farm crop improvement
- Opportunities for selling your seeds
Lunches will be provided by Bluebird Bakery and feature local ingredients
Questions about this event can be directed to casey.snakeriverseeds@gmail.com
This event is supported through the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Transition to Organic Partnership Program (TOPP). TOPP is a program of the USDA Organic Transition Initiative and is administered by the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP).”
Know a farm interested in transitioning to organic? Reach out to Hanna, an Organic Transition Specialist, at TOPP@tilth.org
Know a farm interested in transitioning to organic? Reach out to Hanna, an Organic Transition Specialist, at TOPP@tilth.org