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 Real Spinach and Freezing Kale: Ever wanted a real spinach taste or wondered how to keep all that kale?
Film on Seeds Available for Film Nights: “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi” was shot over two years and celebrates traditional food varieties and the people that grow ithem
Garden Paradise Holiday?: Seed Savers Gardens and House Available Soon
seed hunter: Seed Hunters or Future Poachers?
Seed Hunter or poachers: check the trailer of our documentary trailer "our Seeds" and then view the other side of conservation in seed vaults a documentary being shown on Australian ABC TV.
Farmers’ Rice Varieties Flogged, Hybridised: Rice farmers routinely save their own seeds. Massive collections have been made from their selections over the last few decades to be held in trust for public breeding programmes. Now these varieties are being sold off to create hybrid rice, a new phenomenon, that precludes seed saving.
An African Call for Moratorium on Biofuels: Biofuels are touted as the solution to dwindling supplies of oil, but what about the cost to agriculture and the environment?
Gathuru Mburu, Co-ordinator, African Biodiversity Network, writes.
Indonesian Seed Saving Curbed: In Indonesia, small-scale corn farmers are being hauled before courts for exercising their traditional right to produce their own seeds. Some have ended up in jail, some have been fined and some have been prohibited from planting their own seed. Edited by Shelagh Pepper.
Seed Vault Services Big Agriculture : The Norwegian Government has built the first global seed vault underground in their high Arctic region near Svalbard. Let’s say we were underwhelmed. Its inauguration late February was widely reported and captured the public's imagination receiving praise from the scientific community around the world. We here at Seed Savers received alerts every day from friends and strangers. However we were far from overjoyed. What a waste of money and effort.
School Food Gardens Book: We have had a good response to our “Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools” book published last August. Three hundred copies have been distributed and sold and many more have been downloaded for free from our website, www.seedsavers.net
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| Seed Savers Posters |
The Short Happy Life of a Cucumber - the twelve phases of a cucumber's life, from seed to seed is one of four designs. This is one of four designs. Order ten posters for AUD20, post paid in Australia.
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Posters promoting seed saving are available as a set:
The Short Happy Life of a Cucumber - the twelve stages in saving cucumber seeds. You get one copy measuring 70x50cm
Help us Grow - this is designed for schools with text on why it is important to save seeds. One copy 50x35cm
Give Peas a Chance - this is everyone's favourite. Message about how many pea varieties we have lost in Australia. Two copies 50x35cm and two copies 35x25cm
Lettuce be - this is the sister poster to the above with a message on how easy it is to save lettuce seeds. Two copies 50x35cm and two copies 35x25cm.
Please note we now offer two extra complimentary posters.
Set of ten sent in a tube.
Order posters
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Find out more about this book click download link below.
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Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools by Jude Fanton and Jo Immig is for teachers and parents on how to establish gardens that are biodiverse, organic and water-wise with low inputs and the full plant cycle from seed to seed. Chapters include the reasons for gardens in schools, planning, planting and maintaining, how to harvest and eat the garden and how to save seeds.
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| The Seed Savers' Handbook |
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The Seed Savers' Handbook
For beginners and experts alike, this 180 page best-seller is a complete reference for 117 vegetables, culinary herbs and flowers in the garden and on the farm. Read a review and see the contents list
Pictured: editions, from left original Australian, UK, Japanese.
30,000 copies sold in Australia.
45,000 copies sold worldwide. Translated into Spanish, Basque, Italian, French, Tamil, Khmer and Bulgarian.
Get your copy of the original Australian version of The Seed Savers' Handbook for AUD27 direct from Seed Savers. Order online
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