Connecting Seed Savers groups located in Australia
Seed saving is the practices and culture of selecting, harvesting, cleaning and storing seed for planting in future seasons. It is a millenia-old partnership between people and plants which is an essential part of agriculture. By selecting, harvesting and replanting…
To be successful seed savers it can be helpful to know some basics of plant botany. In order to ensure that the collected seed will produce true-to-type offspring we first need to make sure we know what plant we are…
We are keen for lots of people to contribute their expertise and experience to these quides. We’re intending to cover a lot of ground – species, geographical locations, climate differences. Australia is a big country and we have a very…
Before the relatively recent advent of commercial seed production and distribution, farmers and growers freely saved and then shared or traded seeds from their crops with each other from season to season. These practices help to ensure the viability of…
These seed saving guides are written by and for Australian seed savers. The creation of these guides is a long term process. If you can’t find the information you are looking for it may not have been written yet. Please…
There is no set requirement to become a seed saving group in Australia. Anyone can start one. We encourage people to join existing groups if they are close enough, but starting one in your area can be a very rewarding…
True Potato Seed (TPS PDF file format) This is a PDF copy of the slides from a talk given by Lloyd Sharp from Mid Blue Mountains Seed Savers at the National Seed Savers Zoom Meetup on Sunday 6th August 2023.…
Unless you want to start a National organisation, registering a incorporated association is done at the State or Territory level. Information on the processes for incorporated associations for each state are here: NSW – – – – … sociationsACT – …
Recording from the quarterly Australian National Seed Savers Zoom Meetup on February 5th 2023