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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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Resources: Films and Books

Available for sale online

and for browsing (as samples)

Our Documentary: Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi

In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “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 or Pacific Pigin. Subtitles are in English or French.

“Our Seeds” has been shown several times on national television in the two Samoas, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Excerpts have been shown in Japan, Serbia, Taiwan and Portugal.

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"

Community Seed Saving Book for the Pacific

School Gardens Powerpoint

Powerpoint presentation of some 45 slides of why and how to have food gardens in schools.

Seed Savers Handbook Translation Into Macedonian

Free with every order -posters on how and why to save seeds

The posters promoting seed saving that we used to sell as a set - we now give for free with each order.

You can use these high-quality full-colour posters to promote seed saving and your Local Seed Network.

The Seed Savers' Handbook

The Seed Savers' Handbook 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. 30,000 of the original edition sold with another 30,000 copies of translations and adaptations sold around the world.

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.