Learning how to save seeds is a community service of the highest level. By saving and stewarding locally adapted varieties for the future, you increase the resilience of your entire community.
It’s a small and slow solution with the largest effects imaginable: good food and nutrition for all, for generations to come.
Seed saving costs next to nothing and potentially means a lifetime supply of seeds: a powerful symbol of independence and renewal. And it’s a great way to get to know your ecosystem better through working with, and caring for, some of its small yet significant elements.
There are lots of practical advantages to saving your own seeds, too. You’ll help preserve great-tasting and traditional varieties of food plants.
And, by collecting the seeds from your best plants year after year, you are actively creating locally adapted varieties. This means plants, flowers, fruit and vegetables that are better able to deal with
