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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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Seed Savers Handbook online

The Seed Savers' Handbook, 180 pages, 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 and published by Seed Savers' Network. 30,000 of the original edition sold with another 30,000 copies of translations and adaptations sold around the world.

We give you sample information about each of the 117 food plants from the Handbook below.

Below find a sample of The Seed Savers’ Handbook. Click on any plant and you will find a description of it, its wild origins and notes on its varieties. The full version, as a book, with how to cultivate each plant, save seeds or otherwise propagate each plant, storage of the seed and the plant's medicinal and culinary uses, can be purchased here.

Please feel free to browse here, and remember that there are translations for the work, and you can always purchase a print version for your bookshelf or as a gift to a dear friend.

Sourced from The Seed Savers' Handbook - available here (see more info).

AMARANTH
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
AMARANTHACEAE	Amaranthus	spp

ARTICHOKE
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
ASTERACEAE	Cynara	scolymus

ASPARAGUS
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
LILIACEAE	Asparagus	officinalis

BASELLA
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
BASELLACEAE	Basella	alba

BASIL
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
LABIATAE	Ocimum	spp

BEAN
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
LEGUMINOSAE	Phaseolus	vulgaris

BEETROOT
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
CHENOPODIACEAE	Beta	vulgaris

BITTER GOURD
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
CUCURBITACEAE	Momordica	charantia

BORAGE
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
boraginaceae	Borago	officinalis

BROAD BEAN
Botanical Family	Genus	Species
LEGUMINOSAE	Vicia	fava

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