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Seed Saving

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A Brief Overview of Seed Saving

Why cultivate local plants and collect your own seeds? What are heirloom plants? What are the tasks of a seed saver? Find out in these ten short stories created as part of the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies project "Building Digital Education of Indigenous/Heritage Crops for the Resilience of African Food Systems in the Climate Crisis" as a transfer of experience from the Latvian seed savers community to farmers in Ghana.

Introduction to Seed Saving

We offer a ten-lecture series, 'Introduction to Seed Saving', where you can learn the basics of seed production, soil improvement, organic food cultivation, and other ways to preserve biodiversity in your garden. This series was created as part of the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies project "Building Digital Education of Indigenous/Heritage Crops for the Resilience of African Food Systems in the Climate Crisis" as a transfer of experience from the Latvian seed savers community to farmers in Ghana.

Useful Information

A guide for seed savers, a lecture on diseases that can be spread by seeds, short videos on seed extraction from various plant species – this section compiles practical and theoretical information that every seed saver should know.

Team of Creators

The educational materials "A Brief Overview of Seed Saving" and "Introduction to Seed Saving" were created as part of the project "Building Digital Education of Indigenous/Heritage Crops for the Resilience of African Food Systems in the Climate Crisis". The project was funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2024 from the development cooperation budget.

In this project, the Latvian Permaculture Association partnered with the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS), an independent research center in Riga, Latvia, as well as with the African social enterprise and AgTech company Farmerline in Accra, Ghana, and the CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), one of the 13 institutes of the CSIR, based in Tamale, Ghana. Learn more about the project on the BICEPS homepage.

The materials were created by a team of writers and artists:

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Sandra Stabinge

Creator and leader of the Heirloom Plant brand and Seed Savers Movement. Author and editor of the concept for the texts "A Brief Overview of Seed Saving" and "Introduction to Seed Saving".

Dāvis Bojārs

Developer of the Heirloom Plant database and Web technician.

Ilze Mežniece

Creator and administrative manager of the Heirloom Plant project. Author of the text "Introduction to Seed Saving".

Edvards Putāns

Illustrator and artist.

Daina Mūrniece

Coordinator of the Heirloom Plant and Seed Savers Movement. Text editor and translator.

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Inka

Life explorer and storyteller. Author of the text "A Brief Overview of Seed Saving".

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