Seed Savers Exchange: Passing on our Garden Heritage

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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 garden seeds to other gardeners.

July 6, 2013—Kingsville, MO
Workshop: How to Control Pollination in the Garden
Powell Gardens
Details and registration
July 8, 2013—Minneapolis, MN
Seed Saving Workshop
WEI's Organic Farm School
Details and registration
July 27, 2013—La Farge, WI
Seed Swap, 2-3 p.m.
Kickapoo Country Fair
Details
August 17, 2013—La Crosse, WI
Workshop: Seed Saving
La Crosse Public Library
Details
August 25, 2013—Geneva, IL
Heirloom Garden Show
Garfield Farm Museum
Details
September 10-12, 2013—Santa Rosa, CA
The National Heirloom Expo
Details

June 22, 2013
Dinner and Lecture with David Buchanan
Details
July 19-21, 2013
Conference and Campout
Details
August 10, 2013
Isolation Methods Workshop
Information & registration coming soon
August 24, 2013
Seed-to-Table Dinner
Information & registration coming soon
August 31, 2013
Tomato Tasting
Information & registration coming soon

Join Seed Savers Exchange and help protect our food and gardening heritage.

The Garden That Seeds Itself

SSE Co-founder Diane Ott Whealy has been planting the same garden here since Mother's Day 1988. She just wrote a blog piece about learning to recognize all the 'volunteers' that grow themselves each spring.

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Help Kristie Help SSE!

Seed Savers' Human Resource Manager, Kristie Austin is combining two of her passions: biking and Seed Savers Exchange. She is raising money for SSE by riding 423 miles across Iowa.

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Free Webinar: Population Size

Join us June 25 at 7:00 p.m. Central Time for a free webinar discussing the details of population size for seed saving. This webinar will cover why diversity is important within the variety you are saving seed from, and how inbreeding depression affects your plants.

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Jeremy Cherfas to speak at Conference

Read a little about the talk one of our featured speakers will give at the upcoming Conference and Campout, titled Is Everything Not Permitted Still Forbidden? Jeremy Cherfas will travel from Italy to Heritage Farm here in NE Iowa for the July 19-21 Conference.

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Which Trellis is the Best Trellis?

Learn from the experts at Seed Savers Exchange about various trellis support systems for your garden. Find which trellises work best for certain flower and vegetable types.

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