Planting Seeds Project

11/11/2022

Biochar is quickly being adopted into community planning as a new option to consider in fuel management, adapting the ancient practice of the amazonian peoples who were able to grow sustainable food in thin jungle soils easily washed away by tropical rain. Its a method of making charcol in the absence of oxygen, quenching with water before it turns to ash, and inolculating the nuggets with nutrient that fertilizes soil and GROWS MORE SOIL forever forward.

02/18/2021

Planting Seeds Project 2021 Seed List will soon be here! Keep watching for some wonderful resilient Vegetables, Flowers, Herbs and Wild Plant Varieties! Photo is Candy Roaster Melon Squash seed crop.......

04/28/2020

please message me if you'd like to place an order.

04/28/2020

HERBS:
ANISE HYSSOP: Perennial, Licorice Mint, tea/salad herb PLUS pollinator plant
BASIL: Mixed Basil (Cinnamon, Dark Purple Opal, Genevese),
TULSI: Sacred Basil of India, used for soothing tea, smoothies and culinary),
CUMIN NIGELLA, non vented Nigella flower whose aromatic seeds can be put in your pepper grinder for fres
ECHINACEA PURPUREA: Edible flowers and leaves for salads, roots strongest medicinally. Perennial .
LEMON BALM: Perennial lemon flavored tea/salad herb PLUS attracts pollinators!
MILK THISTLE: Biennial medicinal plant, seeds are managed by using for food/tea/tincture
SPILANTHES: Heat loving, cooling salad cress and “toothache plant”. Good for oral hygiene.

TO***CO:
HOPI TO***CO: Ceremonial To***co with round sticky leaves and upright yellow fluted flowers.
SHIRAZI TO***CO: Traditional Iranian Smoking to***co with pink trumpet flowers, also used for ceremony, prayer, or insecticide.

04/28/2020

FLOWERS:
CALENDULA: Indian Prince, edible orange flowers with mahogany backs close at night to show off!
DAGGA: Whorls of edible nector filled orange trumpet flowers), attract hummingbirds 4-6’ , flowers for tea.
DATURA: 2 varieties.....
*****Pure White flowers with smooth leaves sprawling plant(tan seeded)
*****White flowers edged in purple, serrated leaves more upright
plant(black seeded)
NIGELLA: “Love in a Mist”, mostly blue with some white.
LACEY PHASELIA Beautiful blue flowered pollinator plant,
LAURA'S GRAPE POPPY: Deep purple centers inside gorgeous single purple poppies
Poppy Mix!

SUNFLOWERS: ( Helianthus annuus )
******SAPO BRAVO SUMMER PASSION: Yellow dominant poly-heads are great for cut flowers and natural Birdfeeders! Reseed prolifically!
*****STUNNING SUNSET MIX: Mix of large single headed and poly-heads of many colors!

04/28/2020

GREENS & GRAINS SEEDS AVAILABLE:

AMARANTH:
******Giant Chinese Orange, Majestic Tan Seeded Greens, Grain & Flower Amaranth
***** Lotus Purple, Burgundy Black Seeded Greens, Grain & Flower Amaranth

BROCCOLI:
****STEVE'S EARLY TENDER GREEN: This climatically adaptable selected and trialed Heirloom has long tender stems supporting prolific small broccoli heads, with tons of side shoots continuing through a long season.

BROCCOLINIi: Spring Rab Rapini

CELERY: (Apium graveolens )
*****Tall Utah: Awesome standard celery. Celery loves nutrient and water.

CILANTRO, Slow Bolt
COLLARDS, Georgia
FENNEL, PERFECTION: This is a heat loving bulbing Fennel with delicious ferning leaves.!
KALE: : Red Russian : Purple veins with red green flat leaves.
OUTRAGEOUS KALE MIX:: Kitchen mix of some favorite kales
LETTUCE MIX: Flavorful and gorgeous mix of leaf, head, and romaine lettuces
SALAD LEAF MALLOW: tall mallow that is great for pluck a leaf stuff and roll snack wraps.
SPINACH:
*****, ABUNDANT BLOOMSDALE: Robust upright spinach, improved as the result of a collaborative 7 year breeding project of Organic Seed Alliance and Farmers/Seed Growers.
*****MALABAR: Tropical Climbing Heat -Loving Spinach with glossy thick succulent leaves AND deep purple fleshy berries containing seed clusters. If you try them for dye, and it works, please inform me!
*****ORACH, Mountain Spinach: Purple leaves, reseeding annual that is an early green up in the spring.

04/28/2020

ROOTS SEEDS AVAILABLE:

BEETS:
***** Beet Mix: Mix of Early Wonder, Chioggia, Cylinder, 3 Beet Grex, Lutz Salad Leaf. Sneak a peek into a farmers’ diverse field in a single garden row. Choose whichever beet you want for your culinary adventure
***** Lutz Salad Leaf AKA WinterKeeper: Quick growing with a huge leaf crown, that invites you to cut and they’ll come again. Larger beet is excellent for storage as well as fresh eating

CARROTS: (Daucus carota)
***** ASTERDAM GOLD: Quick growing dependable delicious yellow carrot...Originally brought from Amsterdam by Sunshine Seeds.
*****3 COLOR CARROT MIX: Kitchen mix of yellow, orange, and purple carrots. Choose what color you want to eat that day! Sweet and alluring! Kids favorite!

ONION:
****CLEAR DAWN: Excellent flavorful long storage onions bred and selected over time to be among the best winter keeper onions..
****NEWBURG: Excellent long day long (northern) storage onion, dense, crisp, tightly wrapped, richly hot flavor, and is ”a de-hybridizing gem from Dr. Alan Kapular” (Peace Seeds).

RADISH:
*****CHERRY BELLE faithful standby for round red radishes with white interiors)

RUTABAGA:
******LAURENTIAN Yellow fleshed purple top storage turnip)

04/28/2020

SQUASH SEEDS AVAILABLE : If you plan to maintain pure seeds for future planting from the food you grow, please choose to grow only one from each family: C.pepo, C.maxima, C.muschata

ZUCCHINI: (C.pepo)
****COSTA ROMANESCO: Italian Heirloom green with yellow stripes
*****DARK STAR: deep green with golden star at the bottom blossom end

WINTER:
****BUTTERNUT, NUTTER BUTTER Squash:
Early sweet butternut C muschata)
****CANDY ROASTER MELON Squash: Appalachian Squash and Traditional Food of the Cherokee People. Larger squashes avg. 8-20lb. Slightly ribbed globes colored
in peach and teal. Excellent keeper. 110-120 days
(C. maxima}
*****HONEYBOAT DELICATA: Bronze tan skin with green/orange stripes C pepo
****SUGAR PIE PUMPKIN: Smaller pie and carving pumpkin
(C. pepo) (Bulk available)
*****RED KURI: Tear drop with orange flesh, excellent storage (C maxima)
*****SWEET MEAT: Teal Blue ribbed squat globe has thick orange flesh (C. maxima)
*****ZAPALLO PLOMO: Argentina Heirloom and Traditional food: Greyish Green deeply ribbed flattish globe, mustard yellow flesh, good keeper 110 days. (C. maxima)

04/28/2020

TOMATO SEEDS AVAILABLE:
PLANT NOW Suggested planting 3-4 seeds directly into pot, thin to one strong seedling to grow like a w**d!.
BLACK RUSSIAN: Deep Mahogany –black shoulders, medium sized tomato, signature sealed cracking on top.
BLACK SEA MAN: larger deep mahogany with reds and greens
CAMPBELL'S: 1950’s Heirloom, bred for Campbells Soup! Large, firm, flavorful main crop for fresh eating/ canning/ freezing. Consider succession planting for a late main crop.
DOUBLE RICH: 2x vit. A and C....large smooth red delicious tomatoes for everything tomato

EARLY VARIETIES: FOREST FIRE: Flavorful med tomatoes on sturdy bush
SUBARCTIC MAXI: Early bush tomato
JUANE FLAMME: Heirloom Yellow- orange medium sized flavorful tomato farm-market favorite
MONEYMAKER: Red (with purple hues when next to a red tomato) very prolific multipurpose tomato
RUTGERS: : 1950’s tomato from Rutgers University: famous as the “THE JERSEY TOMATO” for all things tomato!

CHERRY TOMATOES:
PUNTA BANDA: Wild subtly diverse Mexican landrace.
PRINCIPE BORGHESE: This Italian pointy bottom Heirloom elongated cherry, Is prized for drying and is traditionally hung for long keeping for fresh eating during winter.


TOMA SPECIALTIES : Tomatillo de Milpa (Purple Tomatillo)

07/12/2018

This seed counter is in the KPU Seed Lab. This seed lab is available for seed growers to make arrangements to use. Check out this short video where Chris Thoreau, BC coordinator for the Bauta Initiative, was packing seeds for the BC Seed Trials utilizing the lab facilities. It's a slower process than using sized spoons, and much more accurate.

01/25/2018

Starting the season with a 💜 prayer:

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07/08/2017

This foot powered thresher is super handy for seeds still on the stalk to dance them free of their houses. Simply start the wheel in motion, keep pumping the pedal in the front, and hit the seeds onto the top of the turning studded wheel with a slight pulling back toward you motion. You can run stacks of beans on the stalk, shucks of grain, brassica seeds on stalk, or any other seeds you can imagine growing or collecting through. We've even had 2 of us pumping the pedal simultaneously, feeding beans sided by side, keeping it flowing all afternoon, entertaining each other while getting the job done!

One more asset: Have you ever had ripe seed pick up moisture after a rain, and need to redry it so it will open? No need to redry seed that is fully rip and has been dried. We've threshed both soybeans and brassicas that we could not split with our hands or feet, but shattered easily with this thresher !

07/08/2017

The baffles, adjusted by the k***s on the front of this hand crank winnower, make it possible to clean seed of varying differentiation of weight of seed and chaff. For lighter seeds, such as lettuce or phacelia, turn the k***s to a more upright position, especially in the outermost chamber, catching seeds before they fly out. You control the wind, so simply crank slowly.

07/08/2017

HI Folks! Want to let you know we currently have a good stock of hand crank winnowers and foot pedaled threshers for sale. We're able to ship across the nation, or deliver locally. Please watch for more info posted, be in touch with your questions, and LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS YOU KNOW if you wish to order. Stocks are limited, and next order will take lead time!

03/28/2017

yeah, finally some time to ground in our field today. Dug a bucket of jerusalem artichokes! Filled the dehydrator with 3 flavors sliced chokes, and made a delicious salad of sunchokes, carrot, clear dawn onions, celery, pine nuts, feta, and a few cranberries for dinner. Such a dynamic balancing and diabetes food is stored perfectly in the earth all winter. .... digging them before they sprout!

03/17/2017

Let's make a date to look at our garden plans with the intention of saving seeds from a few of our favorites. What do we want to consider so we have excellent seed to plant back next year?
Lets meet up this sunday afternoon!

The instructor for this class is Mojave Kaplan, a community educator and seed saving advocate who is passionate about sharing her knowledge on collecting and storing seeds wherever she goes. Topics to be covered include: Planning for seed collection How to grow for seed Cross-pollination Selecting f...

03/16/2017

03/16/2017

Looking forward to Kamloops Seedy Saturday ....... Packing lots of seeds for you and will bring a bit of seed to clean, but would rather you be cleaning yours! Also....... WORKSHOP IN KAMLOOPS Sunday afternoon on Planning your garden or field for a High Quality Seed Harvest, PLUS hands on seed cleaning!

Only 2 sleeps left before Seedy Saturday !!! Bring out your garden plans so that you know which seeds and plants you would like. You might even have sunshine to dig out a few perennials to trade !
Mojave from Planting Seeds Project will be there with her winnower so if you have any seeds to clean bring them as well. Eats Amore - Mobile Italian Cuisine will have fresh baked Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls for the early crowd as well as a full breakfast and lunch menu. Kamloops Community Kitchens is busy baking sweets and savouries for their Tea Room. I am heading out to pick up the Door Prizes from Agri Supply Ltd., Purity Feed Farm & Garden Centre, Kamloops Home Hardware Building Centre, Sunshine Farm Seeds Reimers Farm Service is donating a Big Yellow Soil Bag, City of Kamloops - Municipal Government is bringing something special and we will have a lot of extra surprises. It is all coming together beautifully, especially the sun peaking through. Have a great Thursday !!!