Seed Savers Co-op

7th Generation Santa Cruz Seed Savers Co-op

For the 2011 growing season we are growing many open-pollinated varieties at the Grange garden, and curating a small collection of seeds which can be taken and grown at your home or farm. Click here for the list of our current collection.

Here's how it works:

- Become a Grange member if you are not already, and pay $5 dues to join the seed co-op

- Look at our inventory and pick out what seeds you want to grow for eating and/or seed saving

- Contact our curator to access the seed cabinet at the Grange hall (contact info below)

- Grow the crops, harvest and process the seeds and return them for future generations

What you get:

- Access to all the seeds you need for your home garden, within reason.

- Access to all seed talks and seed classes at the Grange, forthcoming on an as needed basis (in spring for crop planning, in fall for seed harvesting/processing)

Responsibilities:

- Grange dues - $28/yr

- Seed co-op dues - $5/yr

- Adopt 2 varieties that you will save seed from, and return twice (or more!) as much seed as you take. Write down your adopted varieties in our seed co-op logbook.

Special thanks for Shanye Murphy for his vision, guidance, and donations of time and seed.

To get involved, or to get seeds from the co-op to grow, please contact Seed Co-op Curator Andrew Whitman at awhitman@ucsc.edu.

SEE ATTACHED LISTING OF THE CO-OP'S SEED INVENTORY BELOW