Corporate controlled seed is bankrupting farmers b/c they are not suitable for all locality's climates & are engineered to need pesticides, herbicides, and artificial fertilizers.

Seeds from local varieties are...none of that. Each bio-region should begin collecting & saving local varieties of food plants - or trust a corp to feed you, your choice.

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-05-26/preserving-local-seeds-sustaining-rural-life/

#Agriculture #Farming #Gardening #FoodSecurity #Seeds #SavingSeeds #Resilience #Community #Activism #Localization

Seed Organization And Storage Tips
https://growinginthegarden.com/seed-storage-organization-tips/

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #Seed #SeedHarvesting #SeedStorage #Seeds #SeedSaving #SavingSeeds

A step-by-step guide to #SavingSeeds

by Maud Powell, March 2010

"Summer and autumn are the seasons when many gardeners and farmers are out in their fields collecting vegetable, fruit and flower seeds for the next season. Seed saving is an excellent way to engage in the worldwide movement to preserve some of the older 'heirloom' varieties of seed.

"During the past two decades, many seed companies have consolidated, and regulations regarding the patenting of seed varieties have been loosened. As a result, seed companies routinely drop older varieties for newer ones, which are usually hybridized and/or patented.

"Organized grassroots #SeedSaving efforts, as well as inspired gardeners and farmers, have done an excellent job of saving many heirloom varieties.

"Seed saving is also a great way to develop seed lines that are well adapted to a particular environment. Saving seed from the healthiest plants year after year enables growers to select for traits that are most suitable for their growing conditions.

"Finally, seed saving encourages a deeper understanding of the life cycle of plants. We rarely see certain vegetable plants, such as lettuce, onions and carrots, in the reproductive stage of their lives. Saving seed provides growers with an education in plant genetics and breeding, which is usually left to universities and seed companies. Following are the four basic steps to saving seed."

Read more:
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/flowers-shrubs-trees/step-step-guide-saving-seeds

Español version:
https://extension.oregonstate.edu/es/gardening/flowers-shrubs-trees/step-step-guide-saving-seeds

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The Svalbard Seed Vault in northern Norway is an important safeguard for plants and the agriculture and ecosystems they support against rising climate stress. But - the archaeological sites in melting permafrost across the Arctic cannot all be put in a vault, nor are there secure safeguards for the culture and knowledge linked to the vaulted seeds.

I jump up and down about this in Micro-Climate Blog #26.

https://sha.org/saving-seeds-but-not-yet-sites/2024/12/

#ClimateHeritage
#SavingSeeds

Our current commercial hybrids require petrochemical fertilizers & industrial tech to make work, so basically, they're useless for the reality that's coming. Peak oil, phosphorus, and resource depletion in general, as well as the climate collapse, will all but wipe out that kind of farming.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/svalbard-global-seed-vault-purpose

"...The vault would protect... “Indigenous biocultural heritage,” an interweaving of scientific & cultural value..."

#Agriculture #Farming #FoodSecurity #SavingSeeds #FactoryFarms

Right now it’s hard for me to imagine the future, partly because it’s so dark, and partly because just wtf!

Yesterday I composted a bunch of plants from the garden and saved seeds to maybe help make a possible future I can’t see right now …

Four kinds of beans and peppers, radishes, and fennel.

More info in the alt-text.

#SavingSeeds #compost #gardening

It's #SeedTapping / #SeedsCollecting time. My #liatris & #zinnias have gone to seed. I'm collecting their #seeds to save, to share & to plant next year, in new spots around the backyard.

#Gardeners #Saanich #Zone8 #VictoriaBC #SeedSavers #FlowerSeeds #perennials #SeedSaving #bloomscrolling #SavingSeeds #garden #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest

Mach möglich, Kulturpflanzen vor dem Aussterben zu bewahren

Unterstütze das Saatgut-Kollektiv saatje mit deinem monatlichen Beitrag:
https://saatje.de/support

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