What you can do with your very own Local Seed Network
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Local Seed Network
Some tips and ideas for expanding your Local Seed Network horizons
• Look around your neighbourhood for anything unusual or even suspect such as weird looking food plants.;
• Try to find out from older gardeners how they have saved their seeds from year to year, how they create garden soil, how they manage without pesticides;
• Be the first to offer other gardeners some of the seeds you have saved or cuttings and tubers;
• Establish a seed collection/small seed bank by multiplying the local seed stock for distribution to local gardeners (please note that seeds have a limited life span, usually a few years only, and that the purpose of the exercise is not to have dynamic network of friends to keep them in their gardens;
• Record movement of seeds and planting materials to and from the seed bank if you have one;
• Organise garden tours so gardening skills, seeds, food preserving methods can be shared;
• Demonstrate best seed harvesting, cleaning, and storing practices at markets, fairs, schools etc.;
• Promote in the local media the vital importance of seed saving and local garden diversity (check our our media kit soon online!);
• Initiate seed saving activities in schools;
• Raise some money for seed projects in the Majority World.