Kadıköy Municipality organized an Istanbul Seed Exchange Festival in order to protect, support and increase ancestral seed production.
Kadıköy The Municipality also organizes seed exchange festivals every year to protect, multiply and disseminate the ancestral seeds that farmers have kept in their warehouses for hundreds of years and reunited with the soil the next year. To promote the production of healthy, clean food Kadıköy who brought the Bostanları project to life Kadıköy Municipality continues to support natural agriculture with seed exchange festivals.
Kadıköy Istanbul Seed Exchange Festival, organized for the 6th time this year by the Municipality of Earth together with the Earth Association, was held today in the Field in Koşuyolu. Kadıköywas carried out in . In the festival, where parsley, cress, melon, watermelon, kidney bean, pea, bean, pepper and arugula seeds were presented to the visitors, more than 30 producers and organizations also introduced local products grown in natural and ecological conditions at their stands. Kadıköy Mayor Atty. Şerdil Dara Odabaşı also attended the festival and toured the stands; with producers and participants sohbet He.
In the festival, where a talk titled “The Importance of Local Seeds” and a panel titled “Seed and Food Policies” were held for adults, many activities were organized for children to learn while having fun.
Making statements about the Seed Exchange Festival, Earth Association volunteer Ayşe Özdal said: Kadıköy Together with the municipality, we are organizing the 6th. This is an event that we look forward to with great excitement and enthusiasm. Today, we have more than 30 booths here. Individuals and institutions that support up-cycling, sustainability and natural agriculture came and opened stands here. "People bring ancestral seeds and exchange them with each other," he said.
Expressing that the participation in the festival was very intense, Özdal said, “We are trying to keep the seeds of ancestry alive here. Our aim is to spread and multiply local, natural seeds to as many people as possible. In addition, we want not only the production of seeds, but also the spread of the mentality and ecological thought behind it," he said.
Demet Özdamar, who opened a booth at the 6th Istanbul Seed Exchange Festival for the benefit of earthquake-affected producers, said, “This is the first time I am participating in this festival. It is very pleasant to be here. I opened a booth for the benefit of earthquake victims. Right now I have cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, red corn, ornamental sunflower seeds here. These are our products that we have grown from ancestral seeds in our own garden since the past. We will go to Antakya in a week. We will take seedlings with us. We will donate the income we earn here to the families in Antakya.”