All saved tomato seeds from last year have sprouted up and the tomatillo seeds I gathered from the ground in the garden a month ago are up too. Heat mat turned off. They were started on April 1.
I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds, Chris Smith
"Our desire to preserve is strongly linked to a narrative of loss, both for biodiversity writ large and for rare heirloom seeds. But we recognize the need for biodiversity and destroy it in the same breath. What if we protected the Amazon instead of just the genetics within it? What if we supported small-scale diversified agriculture instead of industrialized monoculture?”
Capsicum annuum have been planted. 5 pots each of saved seed. Two sweet, one hot. California Wonder, Red Marconi, and Jalapeno. Sieved potting mix to remove the chunks of wood and rocks. On a 17 watt heat mat with a clear cover, and under one LED panel adjusted to about 220 µMol/m2/S. Temperature warmed from 63F / 17C to 78F / 26C in 2 hours or less.
@Broadfork. Good afternoon Broadfork. The Seed Savers Exchange of Decorah, Iowa is local vegetable seeds as far as local goes. We are members. The seed catalog is lovely. The pepper and tomato varieties are hard to equal. The varieties rotate in and out. The Seed Savers Exchange also has a historical Apple tree orchard. Some years they have sold historic apple tree varieties. #gardening, #seedsaving, #heirloomplants, #growyourown, #minnesota.
Reconnecting people with food through large-scale gardening can transform the world. Grow fresher, healthier, pesticide-free food with unique varieties. Access seeds, guides, and One Community’s open-source strategy to feed 100+ people in a year.
alliance of native seed keepers (AONSK) a non-GMO Indigenous-owned seed & benefit company who got their first building, is raising funds for various things like: offering resources for seed-saving/seed-banks for Indigenous growers, building repairs, decolonizing the process of contract growing, managing a seed sanctuary of ancestral seeds, giving back to other Indigenous communities, & many so many other cool things you can read about below:
Note that individual links just point to each library system's home page, and more digging is necessary to find details about specific lending programs (and sometimes also community learning workshops). Or just ask your local librarian!
For Tchida, seed saving is a natural outcropping of her lifelong exploration of finding ways to support the environment.
“This is such an obvious and easy way,” she says. “The connection you make intrinsically with the plants throughout their whole growth process is so much fun.”
@alyssa@Pollinators@feinschmeckergarten We have the Heritage Seed Library where members (£21 per year) can select six seed packets from the annual seed list until February 2025.
Seeds are only able to be sent within England, Wales and Scotland and not Northern Ireland or overseas due to trading difficulties directly arising from Brexit.
We need people in Great Britain to join and then make use of this organisation.
ΘΔ 
