Category: Seed Savers Connect
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Seed Savers Connect
Each quarter, seed savers from groups across Australia (and now NZ!) join in a national online meeting to connect with each other, talk all things seed saving, share resources, information, ideas and techniques and give each other support and encouragement. Save the date for our next online gathering; WHEN: 5-6:30pm AEST, Sunday 6th AugustWHERE: Online via Zoom Registration link and special…
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Annual Spring Seed Swap
Save the date! This is our biggest event of the year as everybody gets ready for spring planting. It’s always a wonderful event, with lots of seed swapping, donating, sharing and of course having a cuppa and a bowl of soup – we will provide WHEN: 1-3pm, Sunday 13 AugustWHERE: Canberra Institute of Technology, Bruce…
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Inaugural In Person Members Meeting
Welcome to our quarterly members meetings! This is a place for our members to come together and do all things seedy WHEN: 2-4pm, Sunday 30 JulyWHERE: The Food Coop Shop, Acton (map location HERE, parking in Toad Hall carpark public area or across Barry Drive in Watson Street is best access)RSVP: Please hit reply to this…
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Meeting a seed saving legend
Seeds are the very living embodiment of heritage. They are the source of everything we eat (yes, even the carnivore’s meat is from animals that graze on flowering, seeding grasses/grains). Knowledge of saving seed has been foundational to human culture for thousands of years going back to the Fertile Crescent – and maybe even before…
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Seed Passport
Would you like to donate seeds to the Canberra Seed Savers Living Seed Bank? Whether you’re donating or swapping, the information in this seed passport helps Canberra Seed Savers to keep important records for the Seed Bank, to make sure your seed is managed properly and that it is shared with the community while it…
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Introduction to Seed Saving
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Join the Seedy Chat
Whether you are an experienced seed saver or just starting out, whether you are part of a local seed savers group or seed library or just saving seeds in your backyard, you are very welcome to join the conversation. This event will have a Q& A approach, helping you get the information you are looking…
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Seed Savers Online Forum: Connecting Seedy People Across Australia
Are you curious to learn more about seed saving? Do you have some tips and tricks and knowledge to share? A group of volunteers is building an online community for seed savers from across Australia to share knowledge and experiences, ask questions and give answers all about seeds and seed saving. It’s free to join…
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Autumnal Seed Saving
March and April is a popular time for seed saving – in Canberra we grow so many summer and autumn crops that, as the days shorten and the weather cools, get ready to end their annual life cycle once again. Nature’s beginning – and end – is seeds and herbaceous crops will be flowering and…