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Why and how of Saving your own Seeds
Such saved seeds might grow into something similar to the parents, or something ... varieties you'll be able to grow the same tomato from seed saved from each plant next year, even if different varieties were grown ... the squash with a fingernail, it's ready to have its seed saved. Pick it, cut it open, scrape the seeds into a bowl, wash, ...
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Say No To GMOs! - July 2007
Wheat seeds sold to SA farmers are not hybrids and they are not genetically modified, which means that, because of the nature of open pollination, seed saved from ... improved cultivars; and farmers who sow farm-saved seeds to be subjected to the same seed certification process imposed on commercial seed companies, even if the seed is for use by individual farmers only ...
saynotogmos.org

Each player has a ... the long-term. According to Fowler and Mooney (1990), Agricultural diversity cannot be saved without saving the farm community. Conversely, communities must save their agricultural diversity in ...
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jujubes
Jujubes also can be propagated from seed, although they do not come true. Most jujube cultivars produce fruit ... Li or Lang cultivars) A single seed is inside the fruit and the dark brown appearance and this seed gives rise to the common ... chill overnight. The next day add 2 tablespoons of honey to the saved syrup, bring it and jujubes to the boil and simmer, uncovered, ...
www.foodforest.com.au

Seed saving practicalities
This text concentrates on the practical side of seed saving; try why save seed? in the seed zone for more information on the issues ... they flower. By choosing plants with particular characteristics to develop seed from, you increase the likelihood of next years crop being ... Most self pollinated plants are naturally inbred, and can stand being saved from just a few plants from year to year. Look ...
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Why save seed?
The result is a population dependent on commercial seed, bought yearly from a rapidly decreasing ... o c u l t u r e Saving seed resists the increasing monoculture of seed, plant and food supply. Open pollinated plants ... full of 'hybrid vigour' do not breed true, which means planting saved seed next year for a crop is unreliable if not pointless. ...
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Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances | US EPA
(PIP) in three of its commercial GE hybrid corn seed lines. The three agencies have concluded that there are no public health, food or feed ...
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Brush Tailed Bettongs
After rain the seed will begin to soften and germinate and this is the bettong’s favourite food, but they don’t find and eat all of the seed they’ve buried and the missed seeds grow into new plants’ he said ... rose, the rats were driven off the place. The magic marsupials had saved the day once more! Meanwhile the geese had found some isolated occurences ...
foodforest.com.au

Untitled Document
Recent actions of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have threatened to further ... awareness and a mobilisation of public opinion against these international accords. Seed sovereignty Manifesto on the Future of Seed Seed keepers Farmer's rights Mangalore rally Bija satyagraha Bija Yatra ...
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GeneWatch UK - Terminator technology - Sterile seed to prevent farmers using saved seed
This is one of the most contested applications of GM to crops. ... An earlier position paper by the International Seed Federation, representing the world's largest seed producers who stand to benefit from an end to farm-saved seed, shows that Terminator technology is far from ...
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