Welcome!

Established in 1986 with the aim of conserving local varieties of food plants, The Seed Savers’ Network has worked in very practical ways in Australia and internationally since then.

See an overview of our activities, the countries in which we have worked, our story so far with archives of our work and how you can get involved. If you would like to know about or purchase any of our publications or film, click here. 

If you wish to make a contribution to our work in any currency please click the Payments top left.

Our premiere publication: The Seed Savers' Handbook

30 000 copies sold so far. This is a classic and enduring reference for those ready to become a seed saver or willing to improve the quality of their seeds. Sample the book contents, order a print version online. It will be sent airmail. The book is translated into French, Basque, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Bahasa Indonesian.

SeedBlog

Ready for an adventure? The SeedBlog is sort of like a written seed-cam. Unedited, unpredictable, fresh as the morning pea-blossom. Come along on our journeys to the back blocks and get your hackles up over the continued degradation of the world's food vigour.

About us

Yes, the big story behind the story. A bit of our journey, highlights from a long walk with the media, and the mysterious mechanics of how our operation keeps rolling along without government funding,  just friends helping where they can.

Mobile Office

Michel and Jude Fanton are working from their mobile office in Malaysia in January and February (and in Rajasthan India, November and December 2009). We welcome you wherever you are. Over the last year our site has had visitors from 130 countries. Please use the resources we offer at no cost to you and without sponsored links.  If you like what you see here please add us to your blogspot, Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc., the best way to support our seed work is by making a link from your site (s) to ours.

Former Intern Reports In

Posted Mon, 08/02/2010 - 00:26 by Jude Fanton

Former intern, Matt Brown from Kentucky, made contact with Jude by email in January 2010

I watched the videos of you putting Davidson plums to use and Michel bashing the Bunya nut!  Ha!  It reminded me of when Michel climbed a palm tree to cut out the fruit (growing in the ginger garden at that time) because it was not a native or desirable and he was worried too many seedlings would pop up everywhere. 

    

Matt Brown at Seed Savers. Michel up a Cocos palm. Seed Savers friends and interns

Contamination of US soya with GM maize

Posted Sat, 06/02/2010 - 10:20 by Jude Fanton
Some 200,000 tonnes of US soyabeans have been blocked at EU ports this year because they contained trace amounts of two varieties of GM maize that have not yet been approved by member states.

"Our Seeds" shown on New York TV

Posted Sun, 24/01/2010 - 11:16 by Jude Fanton
Frank O'Neill, Independent Consultant and pro bono adviser to Seed Savers, New York, has expertly converted our film “Our Seeds” to a digital NTSC version for showing on TV in the USA.
Here he reports on seven screenings for societies and on television in New York.

School Gardens Powerpoint now available for parents and teachers!

Posted Thu, 14/01/2010 - 21:03 by Jude Fanton

You can now see and show a 34 slide Powerpoint on why and how to create food gardens in schools in our resources section.

www.seedsavers.net/resources/school-gardens-powerpoint

Sink and Wall your Garden in Arid Zones

Posted Tue, 12/01/2010 - 21:58 by Jude Fanton

A successful strategy to overcome evaporation, protect plants from both drying hot and cold winds and to conserve water is the sunken garden. Here we see a grandiose garden in a massive fort complex and a modest urban vegetable garden, in the arid zone of western Rajasthan, India.

      

Showings of “Our Seeds” in New York

Posted Wed, 16/12/2009 - 14:19 by Michel Fanton
Frank O'Neill, Independent Consultant and pro bono adviser to Seed Savers, New York, has expertly converted our film “Our Seeds” to a digital NTSC version for showing on TV in the USA.
Here he reports on seven screenings for societies and on television in New York.

Article on our work in Herat, Afghanistan

Posted Tue, 08/12/2009 - 16:37 by Jude Fanton

We worked in Herat, Afghanistan in 2002 and 2003 on helping the Faculty of Agriculture with their plans to conserving their local traditional varieties. Here is an article published in Living Lightly in about 2004.

Bt cotton faked as organic

Posted Fri, 04/12/2009 - 00:41 by Jude Fanton

The Hindu Times of 18th November 2009 reported that there are hundreds of cases of exporters of cotton falsely selling Bt cotton as organic.

Tour of organic farms near Jharol

Posted Thu, 03/12/2009 - 23:25 by Jude Fanton

We toured the rural areas around and near Jharol and met with three medium-scale farmers who organically grow vegetables, cereals, pulses and medicinal herbs. These farmers explained that it is difficult to make as much money organically as with conventional methods, though their inputs are cheaper.

      

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