The WA Seed Saver Collective

This is definitely one of my passions and one of the things sadly lacking in WA. There are lots of small gardening groups around the place, Organic Association, Permaculture, Gardeners Circles, various Horticulture Association groups, community gardens and school gardens around but they are largely unconnected, and there certainly is no common WA seed and plant gene bank.

I will put in some significant effort to establish a core group to manage and grow this collective, it needs to be both flexible, bountiful and freely available in seeds for the beginner grower and beginner savers, and organised, diligent and technical if we wish to effectual save cross pollinating heirlooms and old WA family varieties and add worth the the wider Seed Savers Australia system. http://www.seedsavers.net/
Given PermacultureWest has some very helpful people and relationships already the WA Seed Saver Collective will have a home under the Associations community wide umbrella.

We where toying with Seeds of PAWA but that play on words is gone with the new look rebadging of PAWA to PermacultureWest. So the hunt is on for a new name. I will call it Plant Hope for short, and while that clashes with my blog, the two will travel similar paths this year so that doesn't matter.

Here are a few of the draft Seed Saving Sheets, and members sheets. Membership will be free at this point but there will be some kind of give and take agreement and record kept. While beginners are expected to do lots of taking at the start, a well organised group would use beginners to save, one type of Kale or Brocolli, as they wont have 5-6 varieties of each like more experienced growers. Hence a new grower can be asked to grow one type of brasicca (and anything else) and we can hope that the seed that is collected should be pure.
Anyway the sheets, I would love feedback at any point, I realise that some of the tittle, annual, perennial dont match, that are space saving until I find the right words or remove them.



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