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Page Count:256
Images:Full Color Throughout
Dimensions: 7.5 × 9 × 0.63 in
Publication Date:December 03, 2024
ISBN:9780865719965
Sustainability:Printed on 100% recycled paper
Printed in:Canada

The Seed Farmer

A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Selling Your Own Seeds

Whether you’re interested in growing your own seeds for farm use, selling seed on contract, or scaling up for retail sales, The Seed Farmer is the essential resource you need to integrate organic seed production into your small-scale farm or market garden sustainably, profitably, and successfully.

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The comprehensive grower’s guide to organic seed production

The Seed Farmer is required reading for any grower who cares about being part of a truly sustainable local food system.

Whether you’re interested in growing your own seeds for on-farm use, or scaling up for retail or commercial sales, this comprehensive manual will help you protect yourself from supply chain disruptions while ensuring reliable access to quality seed stock adapted to your own climate and bioregion. Coverage includes:

  • The journey to self-sufficiency—why and how to extricate yourself from the modern seed distribution industry and develop your own heirloom seeds adapted to your location and climate
  • Easing common concerns such as cross-pollination, crop timing, and poor seed genetics while choosing the right seed varieties for your small farm or market garden
  • Detailed profiles and practical, hands-on growing and harvesting techniques for dozens of vegetable and flower crops
  • The economics of seed production, and the business case for scaling up and selling seeds into local, retail, or wholesale channels
  • Farm planning, sowing schedules, projected crop yields, and other considerations.

With everything you need to help integrate organic seed production into your small-scale farm or market garden simply, profitably, and successfully, this unique and exciting guide proves that going to seed is easier than you think!

Praise for the book

The definitive guide to seed saving for market growers. Practical, inspirational, accessible. I recommend this book to anyone who grows food.

BEN HARTMAN, author, The Lean Micro Farm

This is the book that seed growers have been waiting for!

SARAH KLEEGER, founder, Adaptive Seeds

Dan Brisebois unlocks something that I don’t think most growers even realize is locked: that seed production is possible, even for a busy farmer.

JESSE FROST, author, The Living Soil Handbook

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: You Can Grow Seed on Your Own Farm
  • My Seed Story
  • Chapter 1: Getting Into a First Seed Crop Mindset
  • Chapter 2: Main Challenges for Market Gardeners to Keep Seeds
  • Chapter 3: Crop Profiles
  • Chapter 4: Handling Your Seeds
  • Chapter 5: How to Become a Seed Steward/Seed Keeper
  • Chapter 6: How To Sell Seeds
  • Chapter 7: Crop Planning for Seed Farmers
  • Conclusion: Go and Grow Some Seed

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Meet the Author

Dan Brisebois is a founding member of Tourne-Sol co-operative farm, which supplies weekly farm baskets for 500 families and operates a thriving retail and wholesale seed business. He earned a B.Sc in Agricultural Engineering from McGill University and has over two decades of experience as both a market farmer and a seed producer. Dan is a founding member of the Eastern Canadian Organic Seed Growers network, former board member of SeedChange, and past president of Canadian Organic Growers. As well as writing and teaching extensively, he mentors farmers in the art of effective planning, systems design, and time management at the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy, and hosts the popular Seed Growers podcast. Dan is co-author of the COG Practical Skills Handbook Crop Planning for Organic Vegetable Growers. He lives and farms in Les Cèdres, Quebec.

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