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Seed Savers Handbook: 45,000 Sold Worldwide

The organisation relies on book sales for funding. Buy the book

Handbook adapted by other cultures

Community Seed Saving Book for the Pacific

Clearly written and illlustrated, the book gives practical guide for saving seeds in the villages of the Pacific.

Seed Savers Handbook Translation Into Macedonian

The translation was done by bulgarian seedsavers. If you have any comments please email Michel@seedsavers.net

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Support Seed Savers work

We depend on people paying to support our work promoting about seed saving. Paying an annual support fee helps us to continue these kinds of tasks:

Register and support Local Seed Networks.
Promote seed saving within Australia and internationally
Support and establish seed saving organisations in twenty countries
Campaign about food issues and biocultural matters
Produce film clips to promote seed saving
Maintain this website

Seed Savers depends on volunteers for its work. Please see what you can do to help!

Video Editor Needed

Seed Savers has 250 hours of footage of tribal cultures in 15 countries, mostly in the Pacific and Asia regions and now needs help with editing.

The footage is nearly all logged and classified on a Filemaker Pro database. Thus far we have made a

57 minute documentary, "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi" for Melanesian people, and would now like to make a documentary for mainstream audiences. We are also making clips for this website.

How Local Seed Networks support our work and raise money

This organisation has survived with the goodwill of gardeners, farmers, bee keepers, nurses, teachers, social workers, and ordinary folks representing the Down to Earth Australian society. A huge thank-you all for help us all to preserve the genetic basis of tomorrow's food. We remain afloat as an organisation only because most Local Seed Networks and indivuduals seed savers have supported the national organisation with subs, and the purchase of the 3 books we wrote and published. Some Local Seed Networks also acquire and resell The Seed Savers' Handbook, Seed to Seed Food Gardens in Schools and Local Seed Network Manual and the DVD documentary. They show the film at film nights that's "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi" (Pigin English words: us = yumi and blong= from). Did you know 30 000 people bought The Seed Savers' Handbook just in Australia (which raised roughly one third of all the organisation's income).

The Seed Gift

Seed Savers is not and never has been a seed company. We have never had a policy of charging for seeds. We always felt seeds should be given away because the original varieties were given to us and in some ways it is the intellectual property of these who have selected the seeds in their families for so long. And it has worked for 24 years. In fact since 1986 not only have we survived but we have helped others in Australia and overseas. We have helped made is easier for them to start dozens of Local Seed Networks in Australia. Dozens of groups were started in 20 countries. In excess of half a million seed packets have been distributed to gardeners across Australia. In turn they did the right thing and saved the seeds. Once multiplied they hand the seeds on to other gardeners. Overseas we redistributed more than AUD80,000 (USD60,000) to more than 45 seed groups.