197 - Matthew Forbes (Saturday Seed Co.)

Bridging the Social Distance · Mar 29, 2022

For this episode I interview Matthew Forbes, Head Seedsperson at Saturday Seed Co. Saturday Seed Co was born in April 2020 - like many of us, the pandemic put a pause to business (Matthew is also the barber of "Matthew's Barbershop") and he turned to his lifelong love of seeds to find a fulfilling and meaningful new way to contribute to community. Matthew and I talk about his role as a "seed curator", from finding seeds from Ukraine, to seeds from local trusted farms, to growing his own plants from gifted seeds in order to reproduce these seeds that have traveled the world to be available…