Centro Ashé's Grassroots Seed Program
Centro Ashé is proud to present our grassroots community seed program that promotes and preserves seed saving. We cultivate locally grown, open-pollinated and non-GMO seeds and facilitate community exchanges. Saving seeds is one of the most radical and yet fundamentally important things we can do to ensure a healthy and thriving agriculture, protect biodiversity, and to curb corporate control of our food system.
In addition to hosting community seed exchanges, we sell them which allows us to continue to grow out the abundance of bio-diversity and raise funds for Centro Ashé programs.
Seed Varieties Available:
Burdock
Evening Primrose
Fish Pepper
Cherokee Purple Tomato
Red Okra
We also have small quantities of elecampane, hibiscus sabdariffa, and others please check for availablity!
Centro Ashé is proud to present our grassroots community seed program that promotes and preserves seed saving. We cultivate locally grown, open-pollinated and non-GMO seeds and facilitate community exchanges. Saving seeds is one of the most radical and yet fundamentally important things we can do to ensure a healthy and thriving agriculture, protect biodiversity, and to curb corporate control of our food system.
In addition to hosting community seed exchanges, we sell them which allows us to continue to grow out the abundance of bio-diversity and raise funds for Centro Ashé programs.
Seed Varieties Available:
Burdock
Evening Primrose
Fish Pepper
Cherokee Purple Tomato
Red Okra
We also have small quantities of elecampane, hibiscus sabdariffa, and others please check for availablity!
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$4 per pack, $1 for shippingAll proceeds to go to support Centro Ashé Farm & Education Center!
Pay in cash for on farm pick up, or order online to have them shipped.
Seeding Deep Democracy - Vandana Shiva
Click below to learn more about why saving seeds is important:
Excellent video by Bakers Creek Seeds on seed saving, heirlooms, non-hybrids and more!
Why save/swap seed?
"Our rapidly changing world gives us more and more reasons to strengthen our local resources and our ability to be self-sufficient. Local seed saving allows us to cultivate plants that do well in our region, with each generation adapting more to the local environment. We preserve heirloom seeds that are lost as the seed industry concentrates into fewer and fewer large corporations. Seed banks are a great investment; with some plants one seed can return up to 40,000. The abundance seed savers experience is shared with the community and helps model a different economic system. We hope to cultivate a network of seed savers in the region, supporting each other and the seed library as a resource for the expanding community of gardeners, and to strengthen our local food system." (WC Community Seed Bank)
Seed Saving Basics / Resources
Seed Ambassadors: How to Save Seeds http://www.seedambassadors.org/docs/seedzine4handout.pdf
Vegetable Seed Saving Handbook http://howtosaveseeds.com/
Organic Seed Alliance http://www.seedalliance.org/
Seed Trust http://www.seedstrust.com
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (9781882424580): Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy: Books.
Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds (A Down-to-Earth Gardening Book) Polly Alexander
Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated) by Carole B. Turner
"Our rapidly changing world gives us more and more reasons to strengthen our local resources and our ability to be self-sufficient. Local seed saving allows us to cultivate plants that do well in our region, with each generation adapting more to the local environment. We preserve heirloom seeds that are lost as the seed industry concentrates into fewer and fewer large corporations. Seed banks are a great investment; with some plants one seed can return up to 40,000. The abundance seed savers experience is shared with the community and helps model a different economic system. We hope to cultivate a network of seed savers in the region, supporting each other and the seed library as a resource for the expanding community of gardeners, and to strengthen our local food system." (WC Community Seed Bank)
Seed Saving Basics / Resources
Seed Ambassadors: How to Save Seeds http://www.seedambassadors.org/docs/seedzine4handout.pdf
Vegetable Seed Saving Handbook http://howtosaveseeds.com/
Organic Seed Alliance http://www.seedalliance.org/
Seed Trust http://www.seedstrust.com
Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners (9781882424580): Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy: Books.
Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds (A Down-to-Earth Gardening Book) Polly Alexander
Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs (Storey's Gardening Skills Illustrated) by Carole B. Turner