Seed Saving for Future Food with Linda Brennan

Enjoy old fashioned, flavoursome fresh food when you save and grow from your own seed! There’s nothing better than GMO free*, chemical free heirloom varieties, especially when you can grow them yourself. In this workshop, we look at how to save seed, as well as how to set up a private or community seed bank for local food security.

Seed saving is a simple and delicious way to build plant and community resilience that has been practiced for generations. When we save seed from proven, locally adapted varieties of our favourite veggies and herbs like tomatoes, pumpkins, lettuce and spinach we always get better results in the garden.

This very practical workshop is perfect for a group of friends, local gardening groups and backyard or balcony food growers who seek to do something fun
and worthwhile towards saving heirloom and local seed varieties. Linda coordinates the Redlands Organic Growers Seed Savers group and has set up a seed bank of local and heirloom seeds to secure seed security.

Youth Offer

This workshop is also available for teenagers (12- to 17-year-olds) accompanied by mum, dad or an adult guardian who has also paid to attend the workshop.

About the Facilitator

Linda is an author, eco educator, horticulturist, permaculture teacher and a passionate gardener. She is well known for her expertise in edible flowers, with her books ‘Twenty Top Edible Flowers for the Subtropics’ and ‘A Delicious Bunch - growing and cooking with edible flowers’, and for her vast knowledge and wholistic approach to organic home production. She’s devoted her career to health and vitality through nurturing life, people and the environment. She’s an inspiration for adults and children who want to grow bountiful, life-giving gardens with flowers and organic food in abundance. Linda believes in the power of food to transcend boundaries and loves to share her repertoire of recipes from her catering expertise. In her spare time, she enjoys her own organic acreage garden where hundreds of edible, medicinal, pollinator attracting and useful plants thrive alongside bee hives and a labyrinth.

*GMO free - does not contain Genetically Modified Organisms.