{"id":20,"date":"2011-01-19T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=20"},"modified":"2011-01-19T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:30:00","slug":"island-artisans-old-country-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/island-artisans-old-country-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Artisans &#8211; Old Country Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0147e1c146e1970b-800wi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_7102\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341f728c53ef0147e1c146e1970b\" src=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0147e1c146e1970b-250wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 240px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"DSC_7102\" \/><\/a> Today on Island Artisans I featured Jeff Wright of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcountryseeds.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Old Country Seeds <\/a>in Saanich.&#0160; Jeff is the official Canadian distributor of Franchi Sementi seeds.&#0160; Franchi Sementi is an Italian seed company that was founded &#39;way back in 1783 in Parma, Italy.&#0160; After two centuries of operations there, the company moved to Bergamo, Italy.&#0160; It has developed some 70 of its own varieties of vegetables it is solely responsible for propagating and the company is still family-owned.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0148c7ca738a970c-800wi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_7098\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341f728c53ef0148c7ca738a970c\" src=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0148c7ca738a970c-250wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 240px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"DSC_7098\" \/><\/a> One of the main reasons Jeff started planting these seeds in his garden was taste.&#0160; These carrots were planted last year and he&#39;s still harvesting them from his garden right now.&#0160; They are sweet and smooth. In addition to flavour, Jeff says the germination rate of the seeds is always more than what it is rated at, nearly 100%!&#0160; And the seeds can be used for more than one season, he&#39;s just finishing off a packet of radicchio that he bought six years ago.&#0160; The size of the packets is large, and you get your money&#39;s worth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0148c7ca8106970c-800wi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC_7106\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341f728c53ef0148c7ca8106970c\" src=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef0148c7ca8106970c-250wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 240px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"DSC_7106\" \/><\/a> If you want to download Jeff&#39;s catalogue of seeds available for 2011, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldcountryseeds.ca\/Old-Country-Seeds-Catalogue-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> for a .pdf version.&#0160; I have a bunch of seeds to try out from Jeff, and I&#39;m going to be planting some of the mixed greens (misticanza) in my greenhouse in a couple of weeks so I can have some nice fresh salads in a couple of months!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re looking for info on the Master Gardener day in Sidney on the 29th of January, click<a href=\"\/2011\/01\/update-on-classes-and-my-next-speaking-engagement.html\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on Island Artisans I featured Jeff Wright of Old Country Seeds in Saanich.&#0160; Jeff is the official Canadian distributor of Franchi Sementi seeds.&#0160; Franchi Sementi is an Italian seed company that was founded &#39;way back in 1783 in Parma, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/island-artisans-old-country-seeds\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-artisans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}