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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.
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Homesteading Relevant News:
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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 Plans And Provisions With Guest Jason White
Best Places To Get Trees, Bushes, Vines, and Canes For Your Homestead
Growing Insects For Small Livestock Feed
Our Picks For The Best Organic Seed Companies
12 Things You Can Start Doing To Begin Homesteading Even If You Don't Have Land
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