Always wanted to learn how to Save Seeds? Love Saving Seeds and want to get involved in a bigger way? See the importance of participation in our food system?

Join the cadre of local citizen seeds savers! Together we will learn how to grow and save seeds from a variety of vegetable, flower, and herb plants. At the end of the season we’ll come together to clean the seeds we’ve harvested, share them, and celebrate.

The seeds that Citizens Seeds Savers produces will also be used for planting the Mayday! Gardens next year. Mayday! Gardens is a program that gives full gardens of vegetable starts to participants, and also includes videos and other information about growing food plants successfully.

• Learn the basics about Seed Saving with a few workshops over the season presented by Farmers Laura Garber  and Henry Wuehsche. Attend either May 13th 6-7:30 or the April 26 presentation as part of ‘Eat Like a Local, Learn from a Farmer’ .  Both are the same introduction to the series.  Additional workshop dates/times to be announced as the season progresses. 
• Grow one or more vegetable plants for seed this summer. Learn and do the whole process: from seed to seed!
• We’ll grow the transplants, plant the stecklings, and direct sow the seeds for a harvest of MT adapted vegetable crop seeds!
• Harvest and contribute your seeds to the Mayday! Gardens project- growing food plants in yards across Montana.

Whether a beginner or an experienced gardener, there is a vegetable crop seed you can grow with success! No matter if you have a small space or a huge yard of potential, you can grow vegetables for seed. Most important thing is, you want to learn about seeds and collaborate with nature!

There’s tons of easy to grow self- pollinated veggies like lettuce, tomatoes, and beans to start wtih, as well as wind and insect pollinated plants for more of a challenge.

Growing vegetable seeds is a very important act.