Grassroot Solutions - green sense for cents

Grassroot Solutions is the site promoting Sharon Rempel's work with heritage gardens, heritage wheat, Red Fife wheat, seed exchanges, seed banks, 100 mile diet food 'profits', local food and organic food. Sharon is President of The Garden Institute of B.C. and is creating a GIS database to link heritage seed variety to soil type and to climate. This web 'gene bank' of variety information, quality information and growing information will hopefully help people find varieties suited to their field as the climate change happens.

Sharon is dedicated to helping people feed themselves and conserve the environment. Her philosophy is rooted in prehistory wisdom that honors Divine Feminine values of cooperation, collaboration, nurturing and creating Beauty.

Sharon Rempel is the founder of Canada's seed exchange event 'Seedy Saturday'. Sharon started Canada's Seedy Saturday seed exchange in 1989; the first event was held in Vancouver on March 13, 1990. Sharon's been talking about seed conservation on radio, television, in magazines and at conferences for 20 years. The heart of food security is seed.

Sharon is a seed activist and visionary creative thinker. She has helped bring organic food into our Canadian food system by dedicating her career to promoting and teaching organic agriculture and saving heritage seed since 1986. She has also brought Red Fife wheat to the attention of millions of people and an awareness of the value of tradtional knowledge and seed in feeding us today.

As a consultant or a speaker Sharon can inspire green common sense solutions from the corporate to the grassroots level. Sharon can also inspire you to 'green' your lifestyle starting with the food you choose. Sharon believes climate change solutions start with family food choices.

Elegant and ecofriendly creativity can be generated in all of us with the right inspiration source. If you are thinking about going 'green' in your life or business then let Sharon help you discover what's important to YOU and your family.

Finding 'green' solutions....start with the plants that affect your life and are sacred and special to you.

"Food Roots 101. Connecting you to your plant family." A workshop or seminar ideal for any organization.

Green business solutions include value chains, branding, 'terroir' marketing, local sourcing, global ethics and eco friendly philosophy.

Grass is the Queen of Green and most of the food that feeds the west is dependent on the grass family.

As a workshop presentation or conference speaker, Sharon can share her marketing success of 'variety' preserved heritage wheat 'Red Fife' heritage wheat.

"Meet the Queen of Green Heritage Wheat Red Fife the importance of 'wheat' in finances, fuel and food."

It's a great workshop topic for your next marketing meeting and link you to your daily bread.

Sharon's helping to bring culture back to agriculture and folk back to food

Ever hear of SEEDY SATURDAY? Sharon created this community seed event in 1989 - it's our 20th anniversity in 2009!! The event happens in over 60 communities in Canada and the U.K.

Bite into history with 'Red Fife' wheat. Sharon inspired Canada to adopt their oldest wheat relative back to the food system. In 1986 Sharon started with one pound of seed and an idea to recommercialize the wheat that fed Canada from 1860-1900. In Canada wheat is sold as a commodity and the 'variety' and 'farmer' identification is not considered valuable. Yet in local food systems adding the 'terroir' link with 'variety' and 'farm' adds great value to the food.

Heritage Gardens? Sharon started the idea of planting a 'Living Museum of Wheat' and designing gardens for The Grist Mill at Keremeos in the southern part of British Columbia in 1986. Sharon won a scholarship to do an MA Conservation Studies in England in historic landscape and garden conservation based on this pioneering work.

Organic agriculture? Mainstream today but in 1987 only the 'lunatic fringe' thought that producing food locally without high inputs of fertilizers and toxic chemicals made green sense. In 1987 Sharon coauthored Alberta organic standards and completed a B.Sc. Agriculture degree to learn 'agriculture' language. Organic food is now mainstream thanks to the efforts of people like Sharon who linked it with local food, fair trade, recycling and composting.

Book Sharon for your next conference or business seminar.

email sharon@grassrootsolutions.com