How to Save Your Own Seeds

by Bob Wildfong, Judy Newman, Lyne Bellemare

"When you learn how to save seeds, you learn more than an essential gardening skill: you learn how to create self-reliant food systems in your home and community, and begin a new relationship with the flowers, pollinators, and seeds in your garden. It's like discovering a new world, right in your own backyard! Open up this book to find out how you can be a part of a growing movement of seed savers who are rediscovering and sharing Canada's traditional fruits, flowers, and vegetables. Learn about what's in a seed, about the bees and flies that pollinate our crops, about seed-saving tools, and about harvesting, cleaning and storing seeds of all the major vegetable families. Whether you're a beginner who is saving seeds just for fun, or an expert who wants to sell or share seed with others, this guide will be your handy companion."

What's in this book?

Why Save Seed? ~ What's in a Seed? ~ What's in a Flower? ~ What's in a Fruit?
Botany Basics ~ Pollen and Pollinators ~ Tools of the Trade ~ Planning and Isolation
Harvesting Seeds ~ Cleaning Seeds ~ Storing Seeds ~ Overwintering Biennials
Bean Family ~ Beet Family ~ Cabbage Family ~ Carrot Family ~ Lettuce Family
Onion Family ~ Squash Family ~ Tomato Family

68 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2013