Supply chains are finicky. That’s why it is important to stock up on items when you can. This includes saving your seeds. Saved seeds supply your family with favorite foods, are cost saving, and can ensure food in the future. Seed exchanges are popular and may be found online, in your community, and through certain organizations. It is important to know how to harvest seeds and then how to store seeds properly. Temperature, light, and moisture levels are crucial to the seed remaining viable. Our grandparents and great grandparents saw saving seed as a necessity. Nurseries and big box stores were not on every corner, and mail order was nearly unthinkable. Our modern seed selection far outshines what they had available, but it isn’t so much the variety as the availability that is important. Saving your favorite variety of squash is one part of the seed saving equation, but so […]
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