is co-ordinating about 100 Seedy Saturday (and Sunday) events in eight provinces, including five around the GTA. There are also Seedy Saturdays in the United States and U.K. Laura Watt, who has attended numerous Seedy Saturdays as a participant and a vendor, turned her own interest in growing heirloom vegetables into an organic edible seed business called Cubit's Organics. She's selling seeds for plants such as Romanesco broccoli, multicoloured carrots, purple tomatillos and numerous unusual tomato varieties at four of the five local Seedy Saturday events. "I like talking to people who are planting their first garden, and that's why I go," she says. "You meet people who are so excited to plant their first garden and to talk to someone in person; they explode, and their excitement is contagious." Watt is also proud to be contributing to food security. "It took about 50 years to breed the commercial tomato," she says. "If it was wiped out, there are enough people with shoeboxes of seeds that we'd be able to start from scratch."