Canberra Seed Savers

Canberra Seed Savers We work cooperatively to protect our heritage of open-pollinated seeds and grow a locally-adapted Living Seed Bank to share with our community.

We aim to educate and inspire more seed savers🌱 Join with us and be a member of the Canberra Seed Savers Cooperative! Canberra Seed Savers is a co-operative of home food growers and farmers across the Canberra and Southern Tablelands region. We grow from open-pollinated seeds and (as well as eating great home grown-food) we harvest, save and share seeds for next season. Along the way, we work to e

ngage more people in our community and share the abundance. We're building a living seed bank, keeping the seeds growing across many diverse gardens, farms and balconies, building community and environmental resilience. Together we work on projects like the Mobile Seed Libraries and Seedlings for the Community as well as running festival and market stalls, workshops and having regular get-togethers and seed swaps. There's lots to be done from growing seedlings to packing seeds to becoming custodian of a seed variety. And everyone is welcome. Join Canberra Seed Savers: https://forms.gle/rdGYmcr4XtJ7kp9K6
($10 waged/$5 unwaged/student per year)

Joining Canberra Seed Savers co-operative is a great way to get more involved, get your hands dirty, be part of making the decisions about what we do next, meet and work with great people, and access seeds from the seed bank. Membership is $10 waged or $5 unwaged/student per year and as members we access seeds from the seed bank according to our contributions of home grown seeds, creative efforts and labour that benefit the cooperative and to help meet our collective aims. For example, if you can't contribute seeds right now, come along to a Seedy Saturday and help to sort the seed collection and take home some seeds to grow 🙂

*Canberra Seed Savers Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit, non-distributing cooperative registered in the ACT. Members do not receive dividends or share in profits from the Cooperative. We are based at the Canberra Environment Centre, corner of Lennox Crossing and Lawson Crescent, Acton.

Hey hey!So we're testing your seed ID skills (not deliberately) by accidentally packing some sweet peas seeds in snow pe...
05/05/2026

Hey hey!

So we're testing your seed ID skills (not deliberately) by accidentally packing some sweet peas seeds in snow peas packets.

Sweet peas are a flower and NOT EDIBLE! Their seeds are round and a dark brown or black. About the size of a pin head.

Snow peas seeds are the size of peas and a light brown colour. They could also be wrinkly.

So! If you have recently bought a packet of snow peas seeds from us , take a clear pic and send it to us, telling us which one you think it is!

If you do indeed have sweet peas instead of snow peas, we can also arrange to get the snow peas to you!

There are good news stories out there !! :)
30/04/2026

There are good news stories out there !! :)

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Excited for our Autumn Seed Swap this Saturday!! 🫘WHEN:  Saturday 2 May, 1-3pmWHERE: Canberra City Farm
28/04/2026

Excited for our Autumn Seed Swap this Saturday!! 🫘

WHEN: Saturday 2 May, 1-3pm
WHERE: Canberra City Farm

We are searching for seeds from the ever popular broad bean. 🫘🫛 Our seed library is critically low on this Canberra wint...
26/04/2026

We are searching for seeds from the ever popular broad bean. 🫘🫛 Our seed library is critically low on this Canberra winter staple!

If you are drowning in broad bean seeds why not bring some along to our swap and exchange them for some other groovy seeds.

WHEN: Saturday 2 May 1-3pm
WHERE: LESS Building, Canberra City Farm

Or you can drop off your seeds at one of our weekly Seed Sorting days, Tuesdays 10am-12pm at Canberra City Farm in the LESS Building - or join to help pack seeds!

If you have any questions email us at [email protected]

(Thanks to Cat ️Cat's Midnight Nursery for this groovy image! ✨️🌿)

23/04/2026

Scientists say they have the first direct evidence that seeds can sense the sound of rain, and will sprout faster when they do. 🌱

📰 Read the full story on ABC News: https://ab.co/42kojOK

Did you accidentally grow a giant zucchini (or two, or five) this summer? 🌼🌿If yes - we want your seeds!!🫘Our seed libra...
23/04/2026

Did you accidentally grow a giant zucchini (or two, or five) this summer? 🌼🌿

If yes - we want your seeds!!🫘

Our seed library is CRITICALLY LOW on zucchini, so we're on the hunt for YOUR SEEDS, straight from your BIGGEST and happiest zucchinis!

Got seeds for us? Come along to our bi-annual 🌼 Seed Swap🌼 at Canberra City Farm on 🌿Saturday 2 May🌿 and exchange your homegrown seeds for FREE SEEDS from our library!

Or you can drop off your seeds at one of our weekly Seed Sorting days, Tuesdays 10-12 at Canberra City Farm in the LESS Building.🫘

HOW?
Don't know how to harvest zucchini seeds? It's one of the easiest! Just slice the zucc lengthways, scoop out the soft middle flesh, and then just squeeze or pluck out the seeds! Here's a short video for the visual learners: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q4xCViFZXoU

Remember: a zucc is ready to be harvested when you can't dent the skin with your fingernail. (At this point your giant zucc is actualy called a "marrow")

(Thanks Cat 🌸🦋 ️Cat's Midnight Nursery 🦋🌸 for this great poster!)

We had a great time at the Southern Harvest Association Bungendore Harvest Festival this Saturday as always! Lots of lov...
19/04/2026

We had a great time at the Southern Harvest Association Bungendore Harvest Festival this Saturday as always! Lots of lovely chats with the locals and a gorgeous autumn day to boot!

Our very wise seed saver A***n is running a Seed Saving 101 workshop at the Bungendore Harvest Festival this Saturday!WH...
14/04/2026

Our very wise seed saver A***n is running a Seed Saving 101 workshop at the Bungendore Harvest Festival this Saturday!

WHEN: Saturday 18 April. 2:30-4pm
WHERE: Bungendore Village Square - 23 Kings Hwy, Bungendore

📍Check out the link in our bio for the event page.

📍 Free for Canberra Seed Savers members - you can sign up via our website.

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Corner Lawson
Canberra, ACT
2601

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