Welcome gardeners, homesteaders and lovers of seeds! We’ve compiled a list of educational articles about growing and saving seeds, stories about living with seeds and tips for allying with seeds. Wherever you are in your gardening journey, these seed resources are here to help you learn and become more inspired about gardening and living with seeds.
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Table of Contents
Seed Saving
Seed Saving: My Top 5 Insights
An easy but insightful read about how saving seeds has enriched our family’s life!
Best Seed Saving Online Courses, Classes & Mentorships
Ready to start learning about seed saving? Want to up your seed saving game? These seed saving online courses, taught by a range of teachers, offer a variety of seed saving styles and education. Take a look and see what resonates with you.
Cleaning Seeds: Enjoy Quality Seeds, Nourishment & Deeper Relationships
Seed savers may want to learn how to clean seeds in order to have seeds as food or higher quality seed for gardening, sharing or selling. Want to explore cleaning seeds? Start with the link above for an overview or dive into a specific topic below.
- Threshing Seeds to Release the Magical Seeds of Life
- Screening Seeds from Bits of Leaves, Stems & Chaff
- Winnowing Seed (Give) Thanks to the Wind
- Wet Processing Seeds: A Sticky, Juicy Proposition
Seeds and Diversity
Seeds of Diversity: 5 Reasons to Embrace Genetic Diversity in our Gardens
Mother Earth encourages genetic diversity. When gardeners and seed savers embrace the natural pattern of diversity, we are rewarded with more resilience, nourishment and joy. We’re exploring 5 reasons why gardeners and seed savers may want to consider broadening their plants, seeds and diet up to more diversity.
Heirloom Seeds, What Are They Really?
Heirloom seeds demystified. The term heirloom seed sounds self explanatory but can sometimes be confusing as we hear different perspectives. This article dives into the nuances of heirloom seeds, why gardeners may want to grow them and what heirlooms mean in terms of genetic diversity.
Hybrid Seeds: The Good, Bad and Ugly
Hybrid seeds—some gardeners love them, some hate them. Is it OK to grow hybrid seeds? Why are some people against hybrid seeds? We go into the different aspects of hybrid seeds and share information you need to make informed decisions about growing hybrid seeds in your garden.
Open Pollinated Seeds: Out in the Open
Open pollinated seeds are found throughout many seed catalogs. What does it mean for seeds to be open pollinated vs not? Should we only grow open pollinated seeds or does it even matter? We explore open pollinated seeds from several different angles to get a solid understanding.
Locally Adapted Seeds: Apt to Thrive
Locally adapted seeds give us a big leg up in our gardens. It is more natural to grow locally adapted seeds, but modern gardeners often grow seeds from far away instead without realizing what they are missing. We can relearn the old way in our new modern context. So, what are locally adapted seeds? Let’s find out!
Grex: Seeds for Diversity and Change
Grexes are not commonplace, but they are gaining popularity with gardeners who want extra variety and who appreciate genetic diversity. At first glance a grex may look like a mix, but they are much more than a mix of seeds. Let’s explore what a grex is and why grexes are a growing phenomenon!
Landrace Gardening: Becoming Seeds of Place
Once upon a time landraces were the only varieties of seed available. Landrace gardening is bringing us back into alignment with a way of seed saving that is ubiquitous with traditional cultures. Learn about the philosophy and practice of landrace gardening that is inspiring many gardeners to change how they save and share seeds.
Seed Saving for Diversity is Heart Healing
Our family doesn’t worry about different varieties cross pollinating for many plants we grow. In fact we encourage cross-pollination between varieties for so many reasons. One big reason we encourage genetic diversity in the plants we grow, is that it is helping us heal from cultural wounds we received by living in an industrial mono culture.
Growing Perennials from Seed
How to Start Perennial Seeds
Unlike common veggies which are simply sowed in the spring, many perennials are a little trickier to germinate and require some extra considerations. This guide gives you the tips and techniques needed to start those pickier perennial seeds with more success and better germination.
How to Cold Stratify Seeds (Extended Guide)
Many temperate climate perennial trees, shrubs and sometimes herbs who are adapted to cold winters often require cold stratification in order to germinate. Read our detailed guide to understand cold stratification and learn how to have success when starting perennial seeds.
Buying Seeds
Claim Your Power to Support Small-Scale, Bio-Regional Seed Growers
Purchasing seeds from local seed growers benefits us gardeners with higher quality seed that is more locally adapted. Besides having better seed in our gardens, we are also supporting seed farmers who have better ethics and we can benefit from a more resilient local community.
Starting a Small Seed Businesses or Gig
Are you exploring the idea of selling seeds? Our family took the leap and we never turned back because working with seed is so meaningful to us! Whether you want to make some extra money on the side, have an additional homestead revenue stream or make full time income from seeds, these articles will help inform and inspire you.
Now is a Great Time to Start a Homestead Seed Business (or Gig)
Our world needs more backyard seed growers and small scale seed farmers in every region across the globe. Read this article to learn why growing seed is such important, meaningful work and why seed saving and seed growing are so needed in today’s world.
Our Family’s Experience Growing and Selling Seeds
Folks exploring the idea of starting a new family or small scale seed business will appreciate hearing why we love growing and selling seeds part time. We are normal everyday folks who became passionate about homesteading and then seed growing later in our adult life. If we can do it, anyone can!
How Our Hearts Fell Into Working with Seeds
A short story sharing how our family started working with seeds and why it still feels good to us to this day.
Love, Work and Seeds: How We Got Started Selling Seeds
Watch this 1 hour replay of a live webinar, where Noel shares the unique story about how our family ended up choosing to grow and sell seeds part time from our homestead gardens. It is a very inspiring story, whether or not you choose to sell seeds!
Transformational Stories About Seeds
When I Carried Seeds—They Grew Into Love
A deep personal story about how I started collecting perennial seeds as I traveled and how those seeds, some of whom grow as trees and plants on our homestead today, continue to nourish my heart and whole being over time.
One Seed Remembrance
These words are dedicated to remembering where seeds and humans came from. How did we get where we are today? Our journey has been one in relationship with seeds.
A Little Seed’s Winter Gift to the Hungry Heart
I share how seeds have helped me appreciate life more deeply. Life is short and aligning with seeds is helping me be more present with what really matters, they help me understand who I am as a human being.
How Seeds Saved Us
Musings on how seed saving has helped our family find more beauty, nourishment, joy and connection in our lives. Seeds are helping us tend to our family’s culture and better represent the healthier, more nourished culture that we want to see for our world.
Our Family Deals in Seeds
This short story explains why we do this work. Why does our family sell grow and sell seeds? How does offering seeds nourish us?
Free Seed Saving Crash Course
Up your seed saving game in our free video: Seed Saving Made Simple We designed this presentation to help you have confidence knowing how to save seeds from your garden.
Seed Questions Answered
Do you have some specific questions about seeds or are you curious to learn more about seed topics that weren’t covered here? Add your feedback or question in the comments section at the bottom of this page and we’ll do our best to help!
We Have Seeds!
Our family offers perennial food plant, flower and herb seeds for passionate gardeners, homesteaders and permaculture. Check some of our favorite seeds varieties below or browse the online seed catalog.
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