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Happy New Year!!! We still have plenty of 2020 Seed Keeping wall calendars left. They are bright and filled with seed stories - just like you! www.trueloveseeds.com Thank you for your support! #seedkeeping #seedkeepingcalendar #seedsaving seedstories https://www.instagram.com/p/B6_5xc-A9VM/?igshid=cmzm0rmz80yo

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Next week, many hundreds of you will be, like me, flipping the lovingly tattered page of your current Seed Keeping calendar to December, which features the hands of community gardener Debbie Killingsworth holding her ancestral Gullah Geechee seeds: Sea Island Red Peas. Hopefully this reminds you to order your next Seed Keeping calendar, not just for you, but for anyone in your life who may be fed by stories and images of seeds that have played important roles in people’s’ survival and joy. Maybe your aunt or nephew is an avid gardener; or your employees or coworkers are working for food justice or are dedicated home cooks; or your friend is rediscovering their heritage through food; or you just like being surrounded by photos of well-loved plant relatives. When you order from trueloveseeds.com you directly support our work to steward culturally important seeds and the next generation of seed keepers. Plus! There a sale on calendars and t-shirts until Tuesday on our website! Thank you for your support. #trueloveseeds #seedkeepingcalendar https://www.instagram.com/p/BqnWqmRFbVs/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17nsd0ias9okg

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Heading to the post office to ship out more calendars! To order yours, visit www.trueloveseeds.com. 2018 Seed Keeping theme: Resilience and Resistance. This week, I'm highlighting March, which features the Lumper Potato. The Lumper Potato and its close relatives were widely grown across Ireland leading up to the great famines of 1845 and 1846. This then-novel Andean crop grew well in poor soil and could almost single-handedly feed a family, which was life changing for impoverished Irish Catholic farmers living under the harsh conditions of British colonial rule. When late blight destroyed the potatoes, poor people suffered first and hardest, as tends to happen with natural disasters; a million died and a million fled Ireland. Both the Lumper and the Irish survived, growing stronger , and fighting so future generations could live a good life. When we eat foods grown by people in poorer countries, let's hope for their resilience, triumph, and full bellies. #lumperpotatoes #thelumper #potato #heirloompotatoes #irishpotatoes #seedkeeping #seedkeepingcalendar #2018seedkeepingcalendar #resilienceandresistance

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Order your 2018 Seed Keeping Calendar at www.trueloveseeds.com! This week, I'm highlighting April: Calendula and the Dutch Resistance. "When Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands (where 75% of the Jews were killed in work camps), the Dutch Resistance would wear orange Calendula flowers to show their nonconformity to the new regime and their loyalty to the Dutch royal family, which was in exile. The royal family, called House of Orange-Nassau, has been in power since William of Orange led the declaration of independence from Spain in 1581. The orange carrot was bred in the Netherlands in the 17th century as a patriotic tribute to the family with the colorful name (before that, carrots were mainly white, red, or purple). While the Netherlands may have collaborated with the Nazi party more than other neighboring nations, there were those, as always, who resisted, hiding Jews and fighting tyranny." #calendula #calendar #resilienceandresistance #seedkeepingcalendar #seedkeeping #calendulaofficinalis #calendulaandthedutchresistence

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micro green garden testing my saved seed germination rates. so far so good. i'm going let them get sort of big so i can see if they are true to their variety. my lettuces were close together but i let them flower at different times. #seedsaving101 #seedsaving #seedkeeping #seedkeepingcalendar #savedseeds #microgreens #growitathome #indoorgarden #growyourownfood #soapisbest #ithacasoap https://www.instagram.com/ithaca_soap_and_lip_balm/p/CY9EYA4uI5A/?utm_medium=tumblr

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2019 calendars on sale until next Tuesday at trueloveseeds.com! February: “Egusi is used primarily in West Africa for its de-hulled seeds. They thicken soups, are a great snack whole, make a paste like peanut butter, have a high oil content, and are also an offering to several Orisas (including Obatala) in Ifá religion in Nigeria and beyond. Egusi is the name for many species of cucurbits (melons, watermelons, and gourds) whose seeds are used for these purposes. This crop is mostly grown by West African women, and they defend their income from this crop with determination as its profitability affects women of all ages and professions (see Lost Crops of Africa: Vol. II for more info).” We will hopefully have seeds available by late January or February. We are waiting to harvest them from the fruits so they can properly cure. Stay tuned!! #egusi #seedkeepingcalendar #seedkeeping https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqcov-1l29m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11cs1s77vb9ye