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The Seed Savers Handbook: 45,000 Sold Worldwide
Help Seed Savers to keep going. Order The Seed Savers' Handbook here.
8th Print run. 30 000 sold.
The Seed Savers' Handbook has been adapted and translated into six languages
Italian version, 2005
Japanese edition, 2002, copies in over 900 public libraries
UK version with additions for colder climate vegetables.
Macedonian short version of the Handbook
Basque short translation of the Handbook
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Resources: Films and Books
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| What you can do with your very own Local Seed Network |
Some tips and ideas for expanding your Local Seed Network horizons |
| 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. |
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| 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. |
| Seed Savers Handbook Translation Into Macedonian |
The translation was done by bulgarian seedsavers. If you have any comments please email Michel@seedsavers.net Michel |
| 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. |
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| School Gardens Powerpoint |
Powerpoint presentation of some 45 slides of why and how to have food gardens in schools.
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| 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. |
| Newsletter 45 pdf |
Our last hard copy newsletter ever! Spring 2009. |
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| 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" |
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| Newsletter 44 pdf |
Autumn 2008 newsletter as a pdf of 1.5Mb |