Tools and resources
Here are some of our favourite tools and resources that will help you on your seed saving journey. Feel free to download and share. And send us a note if you've got something you'd like to contribute here (use the [help & ideas] tab on the right).
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The Seed Savers Handbook. Now in its 8th print run. Over 35 000 sold. Translated to 6 languages. Help local varieties survive in your garden. Order The Seed Savers' Handbook online.
In September 2008 Seed Savers released their first film, “Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi”, a 57 minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants the people that grow them. It has been fitted with Chinese Japanese and Portuguese subtitles.
» moreThe Seed Savers' Handbook is a complete reference for growing, preparing and conserving 117 traditional varieties of food plants. Written especially for Australian and New Zealand conditions in 1993 by Michel and Jude Fanton, founders of The Seed Savers' Network. 30,000 of the original edition sold with another 30,000 copies of translations and adaptations sold around the world.
» moreThis is a 90 page manual written by Jude Fanton and Jo Immig, with amusing and inspiring illustrations by Dr Liz Elliot and published by Seed Savers. Written for teachers and parents, it covers how to plan, install, maintain and utilise food gardens in schools. The book is useful for planning any size and a range of types of gardens. In addition, it has extra information on how to propagate, such as how to save seeds and replant them. For each theme there are practical suggestions for activities with several dozen websites listed for further research.
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pdf of "Community Seed Saving for the Pacific" that was written by one of our interns, Emma Stone, in 1999 while on placement in The Solomon Islands. There are loads of graphics of the locals performing all the processes.
» moreCoordinator of the Malaysian Local Seed Network, Sabina Arokiam, wrote three articles for the newspaper Utusan Malaysia in February 2012. They are double-page photoessays, with most of the images supplied by Seed Savers. With an audience of high school and tertiary students who may well be learning English as their second (or third, etc.,) language, the articles are cut up into small bites. The layout is very attractive and could be used as a resource for students anywhere. Topics are Seed Savers Visits Malaysia, Saving Seeds for your Home Garden and Starting a Local Seed Network.
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We have four designs of posters and include one or more in each book or DVD order.
» morePowerpoint presentation of some 45 slides of why and how to have food gardens in schools. Includes slides on why we save seeds and many on seed saving and replanting in the school garden context. Suited to teachers or parents who would like to gather support to establish a food garden in a school.
» moreThe Handbook has been translated in many ways over the years. Some of these efforts are quite formal and precise, while others are enthusiastic efforts to serve the needs of a particular moment. We appreciate all the work people do, no matter. Please let us know if you have a translation to share, or would like to sponsor a translation to your language.
» moreThe Bulgarian Seed Savers translated 30 pages of our "Seed Savers' Handbook" (180 pages) into Bulgarian.
It is available as a PDF to download at top right or to read onscreen from http://issuu.com/seedsavers/docs/seed_savers_handbook_bulgarian
Bulgarian is also understood in Serbia and Macedonia and uses cyrillic script as in Russian and Greek.
» moreThis document is the transcript of our one-hour documentary, "Our Seeds" that we produced in 2008. It is a 6 000 word doc in Word, in English!
We offer it to the Commons for translation into other languages. At present we have it in Pacific Pigin (versions of which are spoken in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu), in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. A section has been translated into Japanese.
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