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Seed Savers' Handbook
This is a complete reference for growing, preparing and conserving 117 traditional varieties of food plants. Written especially for Australian and New Zealand conditions in 1993 by
Michel and Jude Fanton, founders of The Seed Savers' Network.
The Seed Savers' Handbook has 180 pages with stunning original illustrations. Translations into Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Bulgarian and Macedonian. 45,000 sold worldwide.
Order the Handbook on-line now.
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Helping Gardeners To Become Seed Savers!
Since 1986 The Seed Savers' Network, based in Australia, has pioneered community seed action in forty countries with community groups and goverment departments. It has helped establish a hundred Local Seed Networks around Australia to locate, multiply and distribute thousands of local food plant varieties that may otherwise have disappeared. The Seed Savers Foundation is a self-funded, subscription-based non-profit registered as a charity in Australia. The two entities, as Seed Savers, help you to learn how to save and exchange local seeds and use a wider range of vegetable and fruit seeds in your garden to improve your nutrition.
Malaysian Seed Network
Portugal and Spain
Michel and Jude Fanton were on a seed roadshow, in Portugal in November and in Andalucia, Spain, early December. They presented Seed Savers documentary "Our Seeds" and gave presentations.
Our Global Impact
See About Us for an overview of our activities, the countries in which we have worked, our story so far with archives of our work and how you can get involved. We have been evolving Permaculture strategies since its inception, 1978.
The hundreds of clips we have produced are divided into twenty-two playlists, for example:
My Seed Savers University - 80 clips on how to save seeds with practical tips.
Permaculture Food Forest - 70 clips on how to grow, harvest and process food in a forest. Filmed in Seed Savers' gardens, established in 1998.
Crap Food We Eat - 38 clips with the bad news.
Garden Short Cuts - 28 clips shot in our Permaculture style garden, here are our strategies after forty years practice.
More clips are added every week, so be there!
How You Can Be Involved
Find and join Local Seed Network. If there is no local seed group in your area or surbub, you can register a new Local Seed Network.
Watch any of the hundreds of film clips that we made on our travels and loaded to our Youtube channel. For example you may like to see seed corporates playing Monopoly.
You can also visit us on Seedsavers Facebook page even if you don't have an account.
How We Can Help You
Seed Savers produces resources such as a one hour documentary - the trailer is just below - three books, posters and other educational material available at our online shop.
Latest from the SeedBlog
"Our Seeds" was shown at the film festival "Globale Mittelhessen" held in Giessen from 18th-27th November. Organiser, Monika Scarf reports:
The reactions are all positive of course. In your film we especially liked the community between the people and their respect for nature. It leaves a feeling of harmony. And the awareness that we can change something, we just have to get started.
...The Seed Savers screening and courses continues.
Thursday 10: Leave for Coimbra in the north to one of the oldest botanic gardens in Europe, where a kitchen garden has been created recently.
15 - 17h workshop on seeds and seed saving.
17 - 19h workshop on seed savouring with Annelieke - a culinary workshop and afterwards participants will eat the results of their work in an informal dinner.
Friday 10, 20.30h...
...If you have ever tasted home grown food grow from your own seeds supermarket vegetable lack taste (read they are nutrition-poor). The solution is to grow your own food with tasty varieties you or friends have bred or conserved from local seeds. Peasants very much do just that.
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Assistance with social media and SEO
If are responding to the advert published in the Austraiian media the last few weeks then what follows is for you. We offer short term accommodation to a person that is well versed in multimedia, you maybe...
All the pleasure is ours when we visit Local Seed Networks. We love it!
This time Irene and David Wallin have been beating the drum; by the way the couple coordinating the local seed networks for a while now and this time around they are organising a one day course and have invited us on Sunday 18th this month of September to teach a course and give a talk and screen one of our films the previous evening that is...
This design was painted on a large bed sheet by Kathlyn Brown a fabulous volunteer here at Seed Savers HQ in Byron Bay.
At the December 2010 Woodford Folk Festival in Australia Dominique Finney coordinator of the Folk Medicine Programme interviews Jude and Michel Fanton. Spontaneous tattooing at DVD signing.
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Brassica carinata produces seeds at 28° south in Byron Bay, Australia. It is a different species to the common cabbage, Brassica oleracea and grows to two metres, producing enough leaves to warrant the varietal name of "Women Meet and Gossip". See more below on saving seeds of common cabbage extracted from The Seed Savers' Handbook.
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The highlands of Borneo few degrees from the Equator, there are a very fertile soils, cool nights and warm days to grow temperate vegetables that would not grow in the lowlands. They are exported to mega cities consumers: Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur etc. Growers typically have small hothouses to protect...
All too often agriculture workers do not wear protection when they spray pesticides. This person I met in Borneo Malaysia is a migrant worker named Paulus coming from Flores Island in Indonesia. They spray fungicides on the tomato leaves and also some insecticides to kill insect a vector for fungal...
This is one of a dozen videos that we shot and posted in our 'Pushing Pesticides' playlist on youtube.com/seedsavers. We are in Kundasang a little village, in the highlands of Sabah, Borneo. Nothing evil on the part of the seller. He does not know himself that appropriate clothing should be...
One of our variety of marigold planted here in Byron Bay Australia has thrown some flowers amongst the darker ones that have a much lighter colour bright yellow.
All we have to do is to tag the lighter flowers we like to reproduce for next planting. When the flowers dries up on the bush and ready for...
Julianne is hosting a course in Far North Queensland with Michel and Jude of Seed Savers. This is happening this coming weekend see details below.
Preserving Our Food Biodiversity
2 Workshops with Jude and Michel Fanton, founders of
The Seed Savers‘s Network
Sat 11th June Seed Saving Workshop
· Background to Garden Biodiversity
·a wide range of varieties and species for the...
Australian cultural icon, Woodford Folk Festival with an attendance of over 100 000, invited Michel and Jude Fanton of Seed Savers to give three presentations in December 2010 north of Brisbane. They were on The Nexus between Garden and Health, on Trends in the Pacific Diet and a Natural Health Panel. Organiser of the Folk Medicine Programme, naturopath Dominique Finney interviewed Michel and Jude after their presentations. See the link to...