549: Seed Saving Class June 2020

A chat with a seed expert. 


In This Podcast:

This is the June 2020 episode of a live Seed Saving Class discussing difficult seeds to save, avoiding cross pollination, and so much more on creating a self-reinforcing breeding system for seed families.

There is always a bounty of information available in conversations with Bill McDorman.

Join the class! Register anytime for the next event. Register Here for the Monthly Seed Saving Class with Live Q&A

Bill McDorman is Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Ketchum, Idaho. He got his start in the bio-regional seed movement while in college in 1979 when he helped start Garden City Seeds. In 1984, Bill started Seeds Trust/High Altitude Gardens, a mail order seed company he ran successfully until it sold in 2013.


SHOW NOTES:

– The difference between easy and difficult seeds to save 

– What are ‘Selfers’?

Basic Seed Saving 

– How grains are essential to a sustainable local food system 

– Self-replicating unique characteristics for growing in specific regions

– Understanding the difference between family, genus, and species for saving seeds

Seedtrust.com

– Hand pollinating techniques 

Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance online course for Fall 2020

Seed School Online

UrbanFarm.org/seedchat2020june


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