Creating A Personal Seedbank

You have probably heard of seed saving, where you save a plant’s seeds or tubers at the end of a growing season to serve as the seed source for the following year.

This is great because choosing the proper plants and practicing proper seed-saving methods gives you to a free, self-perpetuating garden year after year.

Saving seed also means you can share seeds with friends and neighbors, so everyone can start growing their own.

Many people, however, are not as familiar with the concept of a personal seedbank.

A personal seedbank is like seed saving on steroids.

You save seed for the coming season’s planting, but you also bank seed for longer storage, just in case…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...

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