Bellingen Seed Savers

Bellingen Seed Savers (affiliated with The Seed Savers’ Network)

The seeds of Bellingen Seed Savers were sown at a Bellingen Shire Transition Initiative (BSTI)/Local Food Network Cafe ‘Sowing Seeds for the Future’ in September 2008. These seeds germinated and continue to show vigorous growth.

We gather on the first Thursday of the month, usually from 2pm, in a variety of venues, for discussions and sharing of seeds and plant materials, visits to gardens and practical workshops.

We are diverse in gardening experience but all share a desire to learn more about sowing, growing, harvesting, cleaning and storing open-pollinated, non-hybrid seeds.

Our aim is to to ensure a reliable source of delicious, nutritious local food into the future – whatever it brings.

We seek seeds and plants that grow well in the Bellingen area, whether they have been handed down through generations of local growers or have been brought in from elsewhere and adapted to our conditions.

If you share our aims and enthusiasm please join us - contact Irene Wallin on 6655 9090 or email: treeferns@westnet.com.au/

go to www.ecobello.org.au/click on The Forum (left-hand column) scroll down to Bellingen Seed Savers/visitwww.seedsavers.net

This was our first public apparance and we had a delightful day there – with huge interest from the people attending.  We now have nearly 50 people on our email list.  We also enjoyed a wonderful afternoon at our last gathering, when we visited the very large, very productive food garden of a lady in her seventies who looks after it on her own and has done so for many years.  She is very generous in sharing her knowledge, experience, plants and seeds.  Next month we visit a local permaculture nursery for a practical seed harvesting workshop.