Seed Planting Instructions The following general rules apply to nearly all-vegetable seeds: ∞ Plant seeds about twice as deep as they are long, so if a bean is ½” long, plant it 1” deep. ∞ Plant in a fertile, well-drained soil mix. We make our own on our home farm from well-aged compost, sand (...
Flower Seed Planting Guide Crop Type Ideal soil temp. Frost Sensitive? Typical days to germ. Ideal spacing Spacing between rows Planting depth Pinch back or Not Transplant or direct sow Amaranth 60°-80° YES 3-8 6-12” 12-18” ¼ - ½” YES Transplant or direct...
What is AgroBiodiversity? Human beings consume about 200 of the nearly 400,000 species of plants on Earth, but just 3 plants (Rice, Corn and Wheat) compromise half of all calories consumed. Historically people ate very seasonal diets of a wide variety of plants, many of which had a fairly narr...
Slow Seeds Over the past 30 years or so we have witnessed the organic food and farming movement grow to where it is now a nearly $50 billion industry, which represents about 5% of the US food system. This has come with many benefits to health and safety to farm workers, watershed and consumers...
Seven Seeds Farm is the home of Siskiyou Seeds and we employ a lot of Permaculture water harvesting, storage and distribution techniques. Here are a couple excellent videos produced by Andrew Millison at OSU and Beaver State Permaculture Seven Seeds Water Systems Drone Tour: https://youtu.be/XZYt...
The Role of Perennials in a Whole System Farm Design Many organic or sustainable farming approaches rely heavily upon annual vegetables in their initial phases of farm setup. The reasons for this are obvious and straightforward. Typically the land steward needs a cash crop to help fund furthe...
The tentative Dates for the 2020 Spring Seed Academy are May 2020 at Seven Seeds Farm Williams, OR Stay tuned for confirmation & details
Breeding the Heirlooms of Tomorrow Cultivating Resilience to Climate Change Plant domestication is an ongoing process, a relationship rather than an endpoint. When I first began seed saving nearly 25 years ago, I perceived our relationship with the domesticated plants as more akin to one of en...
Botanical Backgrounds & Vavilov’s Centers of Diversity I have long been fascinated with the origins of our domesticated plants and particularly how the global centers of crop diversity identified by Nicolay Ivanovich Vavilov mirror the biodiversity hotspots identified by Conservation Interna...
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