Seeds – The Permaculture Research Institute

If you are getting seeds in from your garden or if you’ve bought some from a local garden centre, you might be wondering how soon you need to use them up. How long do seeds last before they go ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2023/01/25/how-long-can-seeds-be-stored-and-how-should-you-store-them/

As a permaculture designer, I think, I should be growing my trees from seeds I collect. There is a lot of benefit in doing so too. Nursery trees would provide the trees we want, albeit from a sma...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2021/09/09/growing-trees-from-seed/

As governments of more and more countries introduce various kinds of lockdowns (1) during the ongoing virus “pandemic” (1), we appear to be experiencing what many would say is an unprecedente...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2020/04/08/planting-seeds-in-crisis/

Following on from my ‘Seedballs part 1’ article, we can explore a little how we can use seedballs within education. Encouragement of holistic learning seems to me to be a very energy-efficien...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/07/30/seedballs-part-2/

Seeds are a very simple and integral part of our food web and ecosystem; as the beginning (or maybe end?) of many plant life cycles, they seem an essential aspect to consider when doing anything ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2019/07/19/seedballs-part-1/

I dream of growing grains, of being so far down the line in establishing a kitchen garden, a vegetable garden, a food forest, that time can be allocated to developing a system for handling the ce...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/12/13/growing-grains-at-the-home-scale-farm/

Earlier this year, in the spring, I was able to acquire a handful of horseradish roots to plant in a garden my wife Emma and I were putting together. I’d first encountered it as a plant the yea...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/10/16/horseradish-why-i-should-try-it-again/

Like any new venture, starting an urban farm is a daunting and difficult task. Not only do you have to find land to farm, but that land also must be suitable for growing food. Not only do you hav...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2018/07/20/start-urban-farm/

What are Chia Seeds? When most people think of the Aztec and Mayan cultures of Central America, we automatically think of corn and beans as the main culinary contributions to the food we currentl...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/11/28/health-benefits-chia-seed/

Growing crops, or any plant really, often begins with germinating seeds. Occasionally, we get a head start with plants that can be reproduced with cuttings or other propagation techniques, but by...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/03/17/quick-simple-tips-germinating-seeds/

With climate change on the increase, many crops are in danger of going extinct, and this will undoubtedly cause a global food crisis. The worldwide population explosion has also led to increased ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2017/02/28/seed-banking-benefits/

Over the last 30 years, Kay Baxter and her husband Bob Corker have collected one of New Zealand’s most comprehensive assortments of heritage fruit trees, vegetable seeds and perennials (almost ...

https://www.permaculturenews.org/2016/12/18/the-seed-campaign/