Coordinator of the Malaysian Local Seed Network, Sabina Arokiam, wrote three articles for the newspaper Utusan Malaysia in February 2012. They are double-page photoessays, with most of the images supplied by Seed Savers. With an audience of high school and tertiary students who may well be learning English as their second (or third, etc.,) language, the articles are cut up into small bites. The layout is very attractive and could be used as a resource for students anywhere. Topics are Seed Savers Visits Malaysia, Saving Seeds for your Home Garden and Starting a Local Seed Network.

 Powerpoint presentation of some 45 slides of why and how to have food gardens in schools. Includes slides on why we save seeds and many on seed saving and replanting in the school garden context.

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. It has been fitted with Chinese Japanese and Portuguese subtitles.

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 American Samoa and Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. Excerpts have been shown on national television in Serbia, Malaysia and Taiwan and Portugal.

Indigenous farmers around the world face increasing pressure from agribusiness corporations that push their uniform seeds. Many of these varieties require costly inputs such as pesticides and chemical fertilisers.

This one hour documentary will help you if you are presenting the idea of a Local Seed Network in your region.

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.

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 USD25 ). These prices include airmail postage. Discounts for five copies or more.

Three minute trailer of "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi"

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.

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.

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 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.

 Autumn 2008 newsletter as a pdf of 1.5Mb