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A big step toward self-sufficiency is knowing how to collect and store seeds from your garden. On today’s podcast episode I discuss all the basics of seed saving and all the reasons you may want to start doing it.
Homestead Updates:
Slow, Non-Exciting Week on the Homestead! Just get up and do it again.
Homesteading Relevant News:
Forbes Article: Dear Homesteaders, Self-Reliance Is A Delusion
Sustainable Living Podcast: Are Homesteaders Moochers?
Pioneering Today Podcast: Dear Forbes, Homesteading, and Self-Reliance is a Delusion?
Hangin’ Out on the Homestead Front Porch:
This week's Q & A from the Front Porch: What is one skill you would like to learn that you believe would make you more self-sufficient?
Main Topic Of Discussion:
Seed Saving for Self Sufficiency
Why Save Your Seeds?
To save money
To ensure you have the best garden you can have.
For preparedness
To become more self-sufficient through knowledge
For future generations.
To participate in seed exchanges.
What To Know Before You Start Saving Seeds.
Podcast episode with Mary from Mary’s Heirloom Seeds: What’s The Difference Between Heirloom, Hybrid, and GMO Seeds? Self, insect, and wind pollination
3 Easy Garden Favorites To Save Seeds From.
Beans – When to harvest seeds, separating chaff, testing for dryness.
Lettuce – How and when to collect the seed
Tomatoes – Collecting seed, fermentation process, testing for dryness.
Storing Seeds
Enemies of storing seeds are moisture, heat, light.
Store in a cool, dry, and dark place.
The freezer is great but seeds MUST be completely dried.
Envelopes, bags, jars.
Resources For Seed Saving
Website: Seed Savers Exchange
Book: Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners, 2nd Edition by Suzanne Ashworth
Book: The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds: 322 Vegetables, Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, and Shrubs by Robert E. Gough
Today’s Recommendations:
Go hunting and fishing! For us, the squirrel hunting season just got started so it’s a great time to put a few in the freezer. If you want to know more about squirrel hunting I did a whole episode on that a couple of years ago called “What You Need To Know About Hunting Squirrel“. This is also a great time of the year to go fishing as the mornings are cooler and pleasant for us in the midwest anyway. So get out there and enjoy some nature!
Book: The Only Squirrel Cookbook You’ll Ever Need
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Homesteading, Yurt Living, and Staying Fit With Guests Mike and Lacie Dickson
Closed Loop Soil Fertility With Guest Nigel Palmer
Gardening In Cold Climates With Guest Krista Green
Purpose and Possibilities of Small Scale Urban and Suburban Homesteading
Getting Started With Seed Starting
Creating Systems For A Gardening and Homestead Revolution: Guest Takota Coen
Our Favorite Vegetable Varieties To Grow
Planning A Survival Garden
Everything Freeze Drying with Sonya Boone
From Sowing A Few Seeds To A Farm Business: Guest Steve Rice
Growing and Operating A Farm Business with Guest Rob Kaiser
Faith, Family, and Farming with Guests Brad and Starla Walker
Overcoming The Biggest Hurdles To Growing Food With Guest Marjory Wildcraft
Food Security, Healthy Eating, and Homesteading Community with Guest Sophia Eng
Small Scale Seed and Nut Oil Production with Guest Bevin Cohen
Goats, Fencing, Soap, and More with Guests Dave & Amanda Allen
Apple Harvesting, Processing, and Preserving
11 Kitchen Hand Tool Must Haves
Dairy Sheep on the Homestead: Guest Rachel Hester
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