Livingseeds is passionate about teaching you to become more self-sufficient in growing and saving your own seed for future generations, keeping our seed diversity broad and expanding our bread basket.

Note: This is a pre-recorded workshop. Valid for 3 complete views.

Join Sean Freeman, your personal Seed Guru, on this informative and essential seed saving course.

Learning how to keep your seed pure is a critical part of being a successful seed saver. On our course, Sean takes you through every step, right from the beginning so that you can understand how to save pure seed.

Sean is a real guru when it comes to seed saving. His company, Livingseeds, grows and saves over 1 000 different vegetable and herb varieties on the Livingseeds Farm every year. If you want to learn how to save pure seed, learn from the best.

This course is specifically targeted at the seed saver, home gardener, and self-sufficient farmer, teaching you how to save your own seed correctly.

Some of the topics covered in this workshop include:

• How to save seed correctly
• How to store seed correctly
• How to clean seed correctly
• How to hand-pollinate
• Different hand-pollination methods
• Different types of pollination
• Keeping multiple varieties of the same species pure
• The best time to save seed
• Minimum population requirements to save quality seed
• Hybridisation and de-hybridisation
• What are phenotype and genotype, how to tell the difference, and is it important to seed saving?