LH 167: Tips for saving your backyard food garden seeds
Preserving the flavors of the season doesn't have to stop when that last canning jar lid has "popped."
If you know how to save seed from your own food garden, you are truly self-sufficient and can save your favorite plants to grow, harvest, and repeat again year after year without ever opening a seed catalog.
Saving seed is also a great way to share your garden with others. By saving seed, you can give your favorite flavors and best producers to others by handing them a tiny envelope of potential. What a great gift for a fellow gardener, or a friend thinking about starting their own garden.
In today’s episode, host Theresa Loe interviews author Julie Thomson-Adolf about some of the best ways for us to save our own garden’s potential each year…in seed.
You will learn: The many benefits of saving seed The difference between open-pollinated & hybrid seed What is meant by the word “heirloom” How to dry harvest Why you would want to ferment some seed The best way to dry a “wet” harvest seed Tips for saving seed to prolong viability And SO much more...As always, you can get more free resources at www.LivingHomegrown.com/167 as well as a full transcript of the show.
And you can go to www.LivingHomegrown.com/FRESH to get Theresa's Free Farm Fresh Resource Guide to help you live farm fresh without the farm.
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LH 91: How to Use All of Your Harvest
LH 90: Two Ways to Preserve Fresh Herb Flavor for Later
LH 89: Permaculture 101
LH 88: Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Organic Garden
LH 87: Simple Organic Gardening Hacks
LH 86: Redeem Your Ground with Doug Scott
LH 85: The Many Benefits of Raising Backyard Rabbits
LH 84: Raising Backyard Ducks
LH 83: Important Garden Lessons From The Experts
LH 82: Healing Gardens - Tapping into the garden to relax and heal
LH 81: Steamed Puddings & Traditions
LH 80: How to Grow Veggies Through Winter
LH 79: The 25 Days of Kindness Project
LH 78: How to Create Living Centerpieces with Baylor Chapman
LH 77: Three Indoor Kid-Friendly Garden Projects: Bulbs, Wheatgrass & Mushrooms
LH 76: Starting an Organic Backyard Farm
LH 75: Creating an Epic Edible Garden
LH 74: Super Easy Homemade Yogurt [Encore]
LH 73: Canning Jar Storage Tips [Encore]
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