<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">FYI<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Kerrigan Boyd <<a href="mailto:gardens@communityfoodinitiatives.org" class="">gardens@communityfoodinitiatives.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">December 9, 2015 at 1:12:18 PM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:fuusm@suddenlinkmail.com" class="">fuusm@suddenlinkmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:revkat@suddenlinkmail.com" class="">revkat@suddenlinkmail.com</a>, <a href="mailto:tech@fuusm.org" class="">tech@fuusm.org</a>, <a href="mailto:RogerKalter@mariettaoh.net" class="">RogerKalter@mariettaoh.net</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Mary Nally <<a href="mailto:cfi@communityfoodinitiatives.org" class="">cfi@communityfoodinitiatives.org</a>>, Susan Young <<a href="mailto:youngs2@ohio.edu" class="">youngs2@ohio.edu</a>>, Jessica Chadwell <<a href="mailto:jess@communityfoodinitiatives.org" class="">jess@communityfoodinitiatives.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Seed Saving Inventory</b><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">Hello,<br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">My name is Kerrigan Boyd and I am the Community Garden Coordinator for a nonprofit in Athens called Community Food Initiatives. CFI is a<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent" class=""> grassroots organization with the mission to support a local food system that assures and expands access to fresh, healthy food for everyone in the Appalachian Ohio region.</span> </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">One of the ways that we work to assure local food access is to keep an annual inventory of seeds saved, which is then published and made available to the public. I have heard that the UU Church does an annual seed exchange and I would love the opportunity to connect with some of the seed savers in the hopes of including them in our inventory, inviting them to our seed exchanges, and possibly including them in newly founded Southeast Ohio Seed Savers Company. <a href="http://www.communityfoodinitiatives.org/soss/" class="">Here</a> is additional information on the Southeast Ohio Seed Savers, and <a href="http://www.communityfoodinitiatives.org/seed-sovereignty/" class="">here</a> is a bit more general information on our work with seed sovereignty. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">I am contacting you in hopes that you could point me in the right direction, or pass along seed saver contacts so I may connect with them via email. I also wanted to make you aware that CFI will be hosting two upcoming seed exchanges - Saturday, February 20th and Saturday, March 26th both from 1-3pm. I would be happy the pass along more details on the event as we get further along in the planning process.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">Thank you, </font></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">Kerrigan Boyd</font></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class=""><a href="tel:%28740%29%20707-5642" value="+17407075642" target="_blank" class="">(740) 707-5642</a><br class=""></font><div class=""><font face="times new roman, serif" class="">COMCorps<b class="">|</b>AmeriCorps<br class="">Community Garden Coordinator<br class="">Community Food Initiatives</font></div><div class=""><font color="#4c1130" face="times new roman, serif" class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityFoodInitiatives/" target="_blank" class="">Like us on Facebook!</a><br class=""></font><div class=""><font color="#4c1130" face="times new roman, serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#4c1130" face="times new roman, serif" class=""><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0BzCRvNeDD2p6aGxMaUdnUW9nYWc&revid=0BzCRvNeDD2p6TXovZ2YzRDJsa08zS1YzQXQ3aStEN3lERVNvPQ" width="96" height="89" class=""><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/AmeriCorps_logo.jpg" width="96" height="96" class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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