Get involved
You too can play you part and feel you are part of the answer
Let you garden go to seed by allowing plants to complete their full cycle and self seed. Just stake plants shooting to seed such as lettuce, coriander, chinese cabbage, chicory. Don't forget to start first with a locally adapated seed.
Join a local seed network, find out where on our site.
Join us on facebook Twitter and Youtube. Add comments and recommend us to your friends.
And don't forget that we need support to continue the 26 years old organisation's work. Paying an annual support fee helps us to reach more people:
Buy our book at half price by five and sell on markets or to friends and family. 33 000 copies have been sold so far.
Register and support Local Seed Networks
Screen Our Seed a 57 mn documentary in your area. We can arrange to be there when you organise a screening. Just get a dvd on this site, time and date.
Seed Savers depends on volunteers for its work. Please see what you can do to help!
We need you to promote seed saving.
Video and Facebook Assistance Needed
Seed Savers has 250 hours of High Definition footage of tribal cultures in fifteen countries, mostly in the Pacific and Asia regions, and now needs help with editing.
The footage is nearly all logged and classified on a Filemaker Pro database. Thus far we have made a
57 minute documentary, "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi" for Melanesian people, and would now like to make a documentary for mainstream audiences. We are also making clips for this website.
Translators are needed to add subtitles to clips in any other languages.
We also need online assistance to trouble shoot. Our platform is DRUPAL. We are also after someone that can help maximise the use of our Facebook page.
How Local Seed Networks support our work and raise funds
This organisation has survived with the goodwill of gardeners, farmers, bee keepers, nurses, teachers, social workers and ordinary folks representing the Down to Earth Australian society. A huge thank-you all for help us all to preserve the genetic basis of tomorrow's food. We remain afloat as an organisation only because most Local Seed Networks and indivuduals seed savers have supported the national organisation with support fees, and the purchase of the three books we wrote and published. Some Local Seed Networks also acquire and resell The Seed Savers' Handbook, Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools and Local Seed Network Manual and the DVD documentary. They show the film at film nights "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi" Pigin English words: us = yumi and blong= from). Did you know 30 000 people have bought The Seed Savers' Handbook just in Australia (which raised roughly one third of all the organisation's income).
The Seed Gift
Seed Savers is not and never has been a seed company. We have never had a policy of charging for seeds. We always felt seeds should be given away because the original varieties were given to us and in some ways it is the intellectual property of these who have selected the seeds in their families for so long. And it has worked for 24 years. In fact since 1986 not only have we survived but we have helped others in Australia and overseas. We have helped made is easier for them to start dozens of Local Seed Networks in Australia. Dozens of groups were started in 20 countries. In excess of half a million seed packets have been distributed to gardeners across Australia. In turn they did the right thing and saved the seeds. Once multiplied they hand the seeds on to other gardeners. Overseas we redistributed more than AUD80,000 (USD60,000) to more than 45 seed groups. If you are moved to make a donation please click here.