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• The premier publication by the original seed savers. Handbook

• Help kids save seeds at school: Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools

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• Our Seeds: a one hour DVD we produced

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The Seed Savers Handbook: 60,000 Sold Worldwide

Help Seed Savers to keep going. Order The Seed Savers' Handbook here.

8th Print run of original version. 30 000 sold.

The Seed Savers' Handbook has been adapted and translated into five languages:

1. Italian version, 2005

2. Japanese edition, 2002, copies in over 900 public libraries

3. UK version with additions for colder climate vegetables 1996 (now out of print).

4. Macedonian short version of the Handbook (1999)

5. Abbreviated translation of the Handbook in Basque (1999)

Community Seed Saving Book for the Pacific

Clearly written by one of our former interns, and beautifully illustrated, this 70 page book is a practical guide for saving seeds in the villages of the Pacific. We provide it as a pdf here as it is out of print.

Seed Savers Handbook Translation Into Macedonian

This is a pdf of an abbreviated translation done by the Bulgarian Seed Savers. If you have any comments please email michel@seedsavers.net. We are working in the Balkans over the next few years and would love to make contacts.

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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

Founders Michel and Jude Fanton are now in Malaysia attending meetings with civil societies, giving workshops, talks and screening "Our Seeds", our one hour documentary.

On Saturday 28th January they launched a Malaysian seed network with Eats, Shoots and Roots run by Sabina Arokiam, Shao-Lyn Low and Juergen Soecknick.

They are being interviewed on national television and are teaching on a Permaculture Design Course on cultural aspects of biodiversity.

Michel and Jude continue to make film clips as they move through rural Malaysia See our 550 film clips on seeds saving and bio-cultural matters at www.youtube.com/seedsavers

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.

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