Resources: Films and Books

Available for sale online

and for browsing (as samples)

 

Book
sort icon
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

Local Seed Network
sort icon
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.

Newsletter
sort icon
Newsletter 44 pdf

 Autumn 2008 newsletter as a pdf of 1.5Mb

sort icon
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.

Film
sort icon
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"

Video Clip
sort icon
School Gardens Powerpoint

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