29/08/2023
A SEED BANK IS IMPORTANT FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
I think, with all the events that are happening in our country and the world, that having a Seed Bank handy, that could help Feed Your Family if needed, would help you sleep much better at night. That's why we get home insurance, car insurance, boat insurance and life insurance. We get them for Piece Of Mind, and Just In Case.
HEIRLOOM, Open-Pollinated plant varieties are your best bet for a successful personal Seed Bank. Choosing your best plants and practicing proper Seed-Saving methods gives you to a free, self-perpetuating garden year after year. Saving seed also means you can share Seeds with Family and Friends; A Gift That Keeps On Giving..
A personal Seed Bank has you saving seed for the coming season’s planting, but you also bank seed for longer storage, just in case. What that “just in case” might be varies. Some people have created a personal seed bank as insurance against crop failures. Others believe a personal Seed Bank is necessary in the event of a partial (or total) societal collapse. Many people just like the idea of being Sustainable and Self Sufficient.
You have to be able to bring food back in. And if there’s no way to get food from a grocery store and the government’s hands are tied, then what are you going to do? You need to be able to have a Garden that will take care of you and your family’s nutritional needs for many years to come. (If Need Be) We are in a very uncertain time in our Countries history now, and we need to Be Prepared.
You start this by having the seeds that you need to raise for your Preparedness Garden - and you need to have enough of them to plant a few acres’ worth of food. This means that you need to have the kinds of seeds that have the ability to reproduce themselves.
They’ll keep on producing for you. And you also want to look for seeds that haven’t been modified. When you plant seeds from a seed bank, you can guarantee that you’ll have food year after year - regardless of what’s going on in the rest of the world.
By using seeds from the foods you grow (and replanting those once your crops come in), you’ll ensure that your food supply will continually produce. You want to make sure that you look for seeds that offer a lot of produce return as well as ones that are high in nutrition and are long lasting.
PLANNING YOUR SEED BANK
The most important thing to remember when planning your personal Seed Bank is that you can only save and store only HEIRLOOM Open-Pollinated, non-hybridized, non-GMO Seeds. Why? Because genetically modified and hybridized seeds have been tinkered with by large corporations such as Monsanto, which don't want you to be able to save your own seeds. Why? Because they want you to have to buy seeds from them year after year. Hybridized or GMO seeds frequently have sterile first generation offspring (F1 is a designation you might have seen).
This means that while you’ll get viable plants from the seeds you buy, the seeds you save from those plants will likely be sterile. If they’re not sterile, they’ll produce offspring that are so unlike the parents with such a wide variety of characteristics that they will be a disappointment and not useful. Only buy HEIRLOOM, Open-Pollinated Seeds from trusted sources.
The SECOND THING to decide when planning a Seed Bank is what kinds of seed you want to save. The best seeds to save are from fruits and vegetables you enjoy eating the most, but experience comes into play, too. If you’re a beginning seed saver, to start it’s best to bank seeds that require the lowest skill set. This way you can focus your first growing season on learning seed saving techniques and still have viable, usable seed banked in preparation for the following growing season, at which time you’ll expand your skill. The easiest seeds to save and bank are Self Pollinated Seeds (see below for more info on this).
The THIRD THING to decide when planning a Seed Bank is what seeds would be best to save. This can vary greatly depending upon the reason why you are choosing to create a personal Seed Bank. If you’re banking seed as insurance against a crop failure in your garden or to be more Self-Sufficient, then banking what you like is the best option. If you’re banking seed as insurance against a societal collapse, then you’ll need to bank a wider variety of seeds and include many types that you may not have ever grown before, including grains.
Be advised, though, that in these cases it is a good idea to get some experience growing these seeds ahead of time; your seed bank will be useless if you don’t know how to grow the seeds you have. Ready-to-order Seed Banks, or Seed Packages, are great options until you have a chance to store your own varieties.
Here at THE SEED GUY, our 60 Variety Heirloom Seed Pkg is Small Farm Grown, Non GMO, has 34,000 Seeds total, Fresh from the New Harvest, and contains 49 vegetable varieties and 11 herb varieties-- SALE Pricing Now at $79. All Seed packets are Full Size Packets.
They are individually packaged in 2 x 3 and 2.5 x 3 thick see thru Food Grade Ziplock Bags, and then put in a large 10 x 14 silver mylar bag. You can use your Home Iron, put on high heat setting, and then run across top of mylar bag to seal. Sealed in the mylar bag, they will last and stay higher germination for 5 - 7 years in your refrigerator or for up to 10 years in your freezer.
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