Saving seeds

SEED REFERENCE BOOKS

  1. Seed to Seed: Seed Saving Techniques for the Vegetable Gardener—Suzanne Ashworth

  2. The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving—Lee Buttala and Shanyn Siegel

  3. The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer’s Guide to Vegetable Seed Production—John Navazio

  4. Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties—Carol Deppe

  5. The Unlucky Peace of Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive—Martin Prechtel

  6. Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience—Enrique Salmón

  7. Where Our Food Comes From—Gary Paul Nabhan

  8. Seedtime—Scott Chaskey

  9. The Seed Underground—Janisse Ray

  10. Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepers—Virginia Nazerea

SUPPLIERS OF HEIRLOOM AND OPEN POLLINATED SEEDS

Seed Savers Exchange
A tax-exempt 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of heirloom seeds. They house the largest nongovernmental seed bank of its kind in the US, where thousands of rare, heirloom varieties are safeguarded for generations to come

Kew Royal Botanical Gardens
Based in the UK, Kew’s mission is to unlock the potential of plants and fungi, through the power of scientific discovery and research.

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