https://www.thelostseed.com.au/community-seed-bank-more-info
Buy and donate/sell seed:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) estimates that 75% of the worlds crop biodiversity has been lost. Research by the R
I recently bought a copy of the DVD and would like to offer it for loan for individual viewing.
I have tried to organise group viewings in the past without success, so individual viewing is better than no viewing.
Of course, I
Read more…I'm currently reading this book by Jeffrey who lives locally at Flaxton.
It's like all my thoughts on gardening put down on paper in a really easy to read and follow format. Highly recommended.
About $30 retail I picked a quality second hand copy up
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Even if you don't buy from EDEN SEED their list of seed available for spring planting is a very sensible one.
Updated
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From FOOD TANK:
Small Australian owned and operated nursery. Selling quality plants, seeds, used gardening books and eco gardening products. Also on offer is my gardening services at very affordable rates.
| 07 5408 6470 / 07 5495 7946 / 0422 |
Read the full article New York Times
Excerpt:
Vernon Hugh Bowman, an Indiana farmer, is challenging Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, over genetically modified crops.
With his mere 300 acres of soybeans, corn and wheat, Vernon Hugh Bowman
Read more…Please feel free to recommend more sites that can be added. These are just the ones I have saved under favourites.
Any comments on your experiences with various companies, such as postage (good, bad), packaging (good, bad), viability of product......
Read more…I've had this sprouter since the 1980s. It used to have three trays, but I lost one of the little red valve things, so now it only has two. It doesn't seem to still be available, but there are heaps of designs around.
Green harvest (Maleny) hav
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Read more…http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/food-ark/food-variety-graphic
As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared. It's hard to know exactly how many have
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Seed Savers Exchange is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds. Since 1975, our members have been passing on our garden heritage by collecting and distributing thousands of samples of rare ga
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Bolivian President Evo Morales, has signed a new law which aims to ensure food security for his co
Read more…Well I'd never heard of this so I googled it when Lissa mentioned it on one of the babaco photos.
Donna: Never heard of them, googled it just now - can you buy the plants yet? Or do they grow from seed I wonder, worth a try certainly.
Lissa:
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I have been so busy all week I forgot to place my order online for a few seeds for green manure that I want to plant Saturday or Sunday. Where's your favourite seed place in Brisbane? I'm on the south side (Sunnybank) and looking for must
I planted out some 'desiree' seed potatoes ten weeks ago. They've grown well - I mulched them to about 40cm using sugar cane mulch and horse manure (and some blood and bone occasionally). They flowered a couple of weeks ago, and the flowers (from f
Read more…Broccoli its so nutrious & I grow it every year, but the seeds or seedlings are always hybrid, because I have not been able to find a variety that produces big heads that is open pollinated.
Yes I grow Chinese Broccoli & now some called Sorrento, but
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