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Seed school is for everyone! Whether you are a gardener, farmer, permaculturalist, an existing or future seed librarian, have in interest in preserving regional biodiversity and heirlooms, are curious about vegetable breeding, varietal improvement, and how to steward locally adapted varieties- this is for you!

Although seeds are the most fundamental part of a local food system, we rarely ask ourselves and our food producers, “where did your seed come from?” We believe that local and resilient food communities need local seed, and lots of local seed stewards.

Due to our inability to gather and share in person, here is how we are restructuring Southern Seed School: Online! With a comprehensive list of various resources hand-selected by us, you can learn at your own pace and build your own seed learning through our website content, available here! It will be available indefinitley and updated periodically as resources are avialable. 

On Saturday May 2nd from 10am-12pm, we will gather together virtually for a live Southern Seed School Social! We will facilitate some inspirational speakers and special guests, as well as our own local teachers. This is your time to ask questions and make comments about what you have learned or may still be confused about. 

During the self-paced learning activities, we will provide materials about:

• Inspiration and encouragement to save your own seeds
• Basic plant biology to help you understand how to best save high quality seeds from a variety of different crops
• When and how to harvest, thresh, winnow, and store seeds
• Amateur plant breeding
• Special techniques: hand-pollination, germination testing, non-seed propagation
• Growing native wildflowers from seed to seed