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Resources on Offer
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| Community Seed Saving Book for the Pacific |
Clearly written and illlustrated, the book is a practical guide for saving seeds in the villages of the Pacific. |
| Local Seed Network Manual |
This 100 page manual leads anyone interested in forming and running a Local Seed Network through each of the steps. |
| Our Book: Seed to Seed: Food Gardens in Schools |
This is a 90 page manual by Jude Fanton and Jo Immig, published by Seed Savers and available from this website. Written for teachers and parents, it covers how to install food gardens in schools and has practical suggestions for activities with several dozen websites listed for further research. |
| Seed Savers Handbook Translation Into Macedonian |
The translation was done by bulgarian seedsavers. If you have any comments please email Michel@seedsavers.net Michel |
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| Master List of Vegetable Types |
This classification system for small scale seed banks is based on the knowledge that we have as gardeners and cooks. It is the system we use here at Seed Savers in our seed bank for twenty years. While it does generally follow botanical nomenclature, it groups some unrelated plants by usage, such as Flowers, Herbs and those whose leaves are cooked and eaten, the Spinaches. |
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| Newsletter 44 pdf |
Autumn 2008 newsletter as a pdf of 1.5Mb |
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| Newsletter 45 pdf |
Our last hard copy newsletter ever! Spring 2009. |
| Posters on how and why to save seeds |
Posters promoting seed saving available as a set Use these high-quality full-colour posters to promote seed saving and your Local Seed Network. |
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| Our Documentary: Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi |
In September 2008 Seed Savers released “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants the people that grow them.
Indigenous farmers around the world face increasing pressure from agribusiness corporations that push their low-diversity seed stock. Many of these varieties require costly inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilisers. Seed Savers directors, Michel and Jude Fanton, shot the film in eleven countries of Europe, Asia and Oceania. It features Pacific islanders who face great challenges: replacing innumerable varieties of root staples with modern hybrids that require pesticides and chemical fertilisers; importing low-quality starch thereby risking losing their resilient food crops. There are developed instructive motion graphics and a rich sound track, mostly indigenous music recorded on-location. Audio is English and Pacific Pigin. Subtitles, English and French. “Our Seeds” has been shown several times on national television in the two Samoas, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. You will find a three minute trailer and work papers below. DVDs available here for AUD24 within Australia and AUD31 outside Australia (equivalent to 15 Euros and USD18). These prices include airmail postage. Discounts for five copies or more.
Three minute trailer of "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi" |
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| School Gardens Powerpoint |
Powerpoint presentation of some 45 slides of why and how to have food gardens in schools.
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The Seed Savers Handbook: 45,000 Sold Worldwide
Help Seed Savers to keep going. Order The Seed Savers' Handbook here.
8th Print run. 30 000 sold.
The Seed Savers' Handbook has been adapted and translated into six languages
Italian version, 2005
Japanese edition, 2002, copies in over 900 public libraries
UK version with additions for colder climate vegetables.
Macedonian short version of the Handbook
Basque short translation of the Handbook
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About us
Our Aims
The Seed Savers' Network was established in Australia in 1986 with these charitable and educational purposes in its deeds...
To develop and promote:
- Educational programmes for the preservation of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds and the genetic diversity of plant varieties;
- Non-profit seed exchange programmes;
- Agricultural and horticultural programmes with particular emphasis on the propagation of open-pollinated plant varieties;
- Preservation gardens for open-pollinated plant varieties;
- Seed banks for non-hybrid plant varieties;
- Scientific research relating to the above matters, either alone or in conjunction with a public university or other institution.
To Provide:
- Financial and educational assistance to community development projects - local and overseas;
- Open-pollinated seed stock to individuals, groups and communities.
We have not waivered from these aims
Support Seed Savers work
We depend on people paying to support our work promoting seed saving. Paying an annual support fee helps us to continue these tasks:
- Register and support Local Seed Networks.
- Promote seed saving within Australia and internationally
- Support and establish seed saving organisations in twenty countries
- Campaign about food issues and biocultural matters
- Produce film clips to promote seed saving
- Maintain this website