2026 February 21 Sorting Seeds
One of my favorite late summer activities is seed saving . I keep my favorite veggie seeds from the community garden, the zinnia seeds from our wedding flowers that I sowed every year since 2018, and various herbs I keep in pots around the yard. In the last few years I’ve started collecting native seeds for my Winter Sowing workshops and personal perennial garden . I organized the seeds that we collected from the NEORSD sites first. They are in alphabetical order by Latin name and correspond with a nice excel sheet full of information. I am still hoping to propagate them for our work sites this spring. One woman I met at a seed swap taught me how to make little origami envelopes . The whole process of collecting seeds and folding them into envelopes feels therapeutic to me. It’s an activity that fills me with hope for next year’s growing season. BEFORE: This wild bar cart had all of my jars and envelopes of seeds, as well as my teas and pet medicines. What a mess! D...
