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25.01.2022 Our friends at the Collector Make Haste market garden are having a special seedling and chicken sale tomorrow from 10am Come check it out if you're in the area or feel like a ride/drive to the historic Collector Village ^_^ https://m.facebook.com/events/197881321872831?ref=m_notif¬if_t=admin_plan_mall_activity

23.01.2022 We sell seeds, all packaged up into little backyard sized packets for $2 a pop at The Food Co-op Shop & Cafè in Acton. Canberra Seed Savers is a not-for-profit cooperative so funds raised from seed sales go towards our activities to promote seed saving and growing in the Canberra region.

23.01.2022 What a gorgeous day for a working bee Seedy Saturdays is on from 11 today at the Canberra Environment Centre at Acton Peninsula. Bring your seeds! Bring your jars! Bring your questions! Bring your children!! We’ll be joyously socially distanced and ready to chat all things seedy ... #springseeds #community #seedsaving #nofilter

23.01.2022 There's still a few spots available in our Introduction to Seed Saving Workshop this weekend at the Sustainability Fair at the Tuggeranong Uniting Church... get in touch with them to book in if you're interested

23.01.2022 Always awesome to learn about additional seed networks. Seed saving is for everyone!

22.01.2022 Have your winter brassicas like bok choy, pak choi, mustard, and greens like rocket finally finished delighting the bees with floods of early spring flowers and are now dead sticks in the garden? Congratulations! It’s seed harvest time! But how to get from dead sticks to seeds? Well if left too long, these plants’ seed pods will readily shatter and throw seeds all over, planting themselves for next season. If you’re happy with that, nothing more needs to be done Sometimes ...seed saving is just a matter of leaving nature alone. But, if you’d like to keep some seeds to swap, share our just plant where you want rather than where the plant wants, the photos below show a couple of easy steps involving a version of a process called winnowing. *Another great way to separate and clean brassica seeds is by crushing the whole seed pods in a sieve over a bowl. If the sieve holes are just about the same size as the seeds, the seeds will fall through to the bowl and leave most of the chaff in the sieve. This is cleaner and quicker for smaller amounts.*

20.01.2022 Seedy Saturdays is happening IN PERSON tomorrow! Come along to the Canberra Environment Centre from 11am to connect and share seeds and stories, and help out with the working bee. It's been too long! Seedy Saturday Facebook LIVE Sessions will keep happening on an ad-hoc basis, but our in person sessions will be happening on the second Saturday of each month for now ... We will be practicing social distancing and hand sanitiser will be available. Come along!

20.01.2022 What does Spring look like in your patch? If you’ve let your winter veggies go to flower in order to set seed, then your garden may look a little like the one in this video! In it, Thea takes us on a tour of her Spring garden which is bursting with flowers and bees.

20.01.2022 Does anybody soak silverbeet seeds before planting? What do you think? I’ve found the seeds germinate well but never measured if it’s actually lots better than just planting dry seed. I’m hoping to do a controlled experiment this year, hopefully the labels won’t get mixed up! https://www.theseedcollection.com.au/Should-You-Soak-Your-S

20.01.2022 Thanks to everyone that came to our first Seedy Saturdays back in person this weekend! We had a great time, were hugely productive, and also did lots of seed swapping - this photo is of all the seed (and some jars) that got donated. Legends!! The chooks also were the receivers of much loving attention from the small people attending Next one is on Saturday 10 October - put it in your calendar! Will be right before our AGM, which we also encourage you to attend if you’re a... member (or become one of you’re not). There will be woodfired pizza after #seedysaturdays #donateseeds #seedswapping #community #gardens

19.01.2022 Don't forget, this Sunday. Enjoy a lovely spring garden (and grab some seedlings for your own!) with the fabulous Kambah COGS crew.

18.01.2022 We’re having a lovely afternoon chatting about seeds (and selling some too) at the Sustain Our Future fest at Holy Cross in Hackett on the corner of Phillip and Antill Sts. It’s a beautiful afternoon. Come say hi and grab some seeds! We’ll be here til 3pm!

16.01.2022 Join with us and be a member of the Canberra Seed Savers Cooperative! Canberra Seed Savers is a co-operative of home food growers and farmers across the Canberra and Southern Tablelands region. We grow from open-pollinated seeds and (as well as eating great home grown-food) we harvest, save and share seeds for next season. Along the way, we work to engage more people in our community and share the abundance. We're building a living seed bank, keeping the seeds growing across ...many diverse gardens, farms and balconies, building community and environmental resilience. Together we work on projects like the Mobile Seed Libraries and Seedlings for the Community as well as running festival and market stalls, workshops and having regular get-togethers and seed swaps. There's lots to be done from growing seedlings to packing seeds to becoming custodian of a seed variety. And everyone is welcome. Join Canberra Seed Savers: https://forms.gle/rdGYmcr4XtJ7kp9K6 ($10 waged/$5 unwaged/student per year) Joining Canberra Seed Savers co-operative is a great way to get more involved, get your hands dirty, be part of making the decisions about what we do next, meet and work with great people, and access seeds from the seed bank. Membership is $10 waged or $5 unwaged/student per year and as members we access seeds from the seed bank according to our contributions of home grown seeds, creative efforts and labour that benefit the cooperative and to help meet our collective aims. For example, if you can't contribute seeds right now, come along to a Seedy Saturday and help to sort the seed collection and take home some seeds to grow Join Canberra Seed Savers by filling out the membership form here: https://forms.gle/rdGYmcr4XtJ7kp9K6 and we'll send you bank details for direct deposit of membership dues. *Canberra Seed Savers Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit, non-distributing cooperative registered in the ACT. Members do not receive dividends or share in profits from the Cooperative. Check out our website at: www.canberraseedsavers.org.au

15.01.2022 What are garlic scapes and why should you harvest them? Scapes are the flowering stem of the garlic plant and are a rare gardeners treat! Thea shows us what scapes look like, why and how to harvest them, plus advice on a simple recipe to use them.

08.01.2022 The power and hope in seeds. https://baladirootedresistance.com//sowing-seeds-of-resis/

07.01.2022 Are you thinking about planting? As the days warm up, it feels like it’s time to get growing! Beetroot, silverbeet, carrots, parsnips, spring onions, lettuce and peas can all go directly into the garden now. For summer veggies, it’s all about soil warmth, rather then air temperature. As a general rule, seeds of summer veggies can be sown direct into the garden when the soil is warm enough that you’d be happy to sit on it with a bare bum Check out the soil temperature guide ...at our blog at www.canberraseedsavers.org.au. Lots of seeds can be sown in trays inside and kept in a warm spot, until the soil is ready for them. As they grow, they will need sun and may need to be transplanted into bigger pots and fed while they wait to go out into the garden. Starting seeds inside now will help to get plants advanced before the scorching heat of mid summer. Most summer veggies are frost sensitive so be aware of the likelihood of late frost in October and provide cover protection such as frost cloth or a cloche. The old rule of thumb in Canberra is don’t put your tomatoes out till Melbourne Cup Day. Climate change mucking about with our seasons can make it hard to predict so grow some extras and experiment with timing. If you grow from seed, that’s cheap and easy to do! Canberra Organic Growers Society (COGS) has a great Sow What When guide on their website: www.cogs.asn.au

07.01.2022 Time to collect pea seeds - what other seeds is everyone saving at the moment?

07.01.2022 The Inner North Urban Farm is a network of backyards across the Inner North of Canberra farmed by energetic and committed young farmers who want to boost (very) local food security, make a sustainable living as farmers, build community connections and resilience and feed their neighbourhood in a just and environmentally regenerative way! What's not to love? Gives me hope! If you haven't yet, can you kick a bit into their fundraiser - they are less than $1000 away from their goal. Starting out farming isn't cheap, it needs infrastructure, and donating a bit now will give a boost to these farmers who are part of the exciting and growing movement trying to create a positive food future for all of us.

07.01.2022 Hello community! Greg from MacGregor left his hat behind at our Seedy Saturday event today. If you are Greg or you know him, please let him know he can collect his hat from the Environment Centre when it’s open Mon-Thur 9am-5pm

06.01.2022 I am looking forward to collecting seed from these excellent plants. But I bought them as seedlings from the farmers market labelled as wasabi flavoured lettuce - anyone know a more accurate name? They are indeed deliciously wasabi flavoured, grew well through winter and didn’t get eaten by resident pests (possums, slugs and snails).

06.01.2022 This excellent crew of young farmers are setting up an urban farm in Canberra, with a twist! They are farming across a network of inner north Canberra backyards, producing local and sustainable food for their community and building the resilience of our local food system. Seed Savers is excited to be helping out with setting up for seed saving. Can you help this project continue its strong start? Please donate - its the easiest thing you’ll do today to make our community more resilient in the face of climate change - and help prove small scale, local agriculture can feed us! And there’s great donor perks too!

05.01.2022 Ok what is this I planted from seed some time ago - the darker green plant - perhaps some type of kale? I don’t remember! Anyone else have these issues?

04.01.2022 Don't forget we've got SEED BOMBS happening next Sunday morning SEED BOMBS are basically mud pies that grow flowers... joy in a ball. Great activity for the whole family! We have limited numbers so email us at [email protected] to book your place now - you can pay on the day. Yeeew it's spring

03.01.2022 We're going to be holding a seed saving workshop this weekend at the Tuggeranong SpringFEST Sustainability Day! There's so many great things on, including a bunch of other amazing workshops. It will be a fun day of all things sustainability, so get on down if you're so inclined

02.01.2022 We're going to be having a stall at the Hackett Holy Cross Church sustainability fair tomorrow! It goes from 12-6pm and there's heaps of great stuff on... there's even going to be a pedal-powered glass snail Come down and say hi, get some seeds and have a chat ... #spring #sustainabilityfair #community #seedstall