Basics of Seed Saving

Saving seeds from your successful vegetables and flower is easy, fun, saves you money, and leads to better-adapted plants.

Join us for an introduction to this seed-saving class. Learn the reasons why you should:

• save seeds
• basic botany for gardeners
• what types of seeds are recommended for saving
• how to ensure healthy, true-to-type saved seeds.

We will also cover tool and equipment recommendations as well as tips and tricks to get the most out of the seeds you save, as well as ways to share your saved seeds with your community.

*Melissa Kruse-Peeples is a certified Master Gardener with the Maricopa County Master Gardeners program, a Community Garden Coordinator with ASU Garden Commons, and former Seed Educator with Native Seeds/SEARCH. She has co-authored the regional guide Saving Seeds in the Southwest: Techniques for Seed Stewardship in Aridlands. Melissa has a PhD in Anthropology from Arizona State University where she investigated the sustainability of ancient farming practices in the Southwest. Her motto is that your garden and your seed stash can never be too large as there will always be people to share it with.