Kitchen Garden Guide

Seed Saving

Saving seeds preserves heirloom varieties, improves biodiversity and helps crops to become more climate resilient. Learning how to harvest, store, and plant seeds from your favourite plants.

Top Tips

Autumn Seed Swap

As the leaves turn golden and the harvest season draws to a close, join us at OmVed Gardens for our Autumn Seed Swap.

How To Save Seeds From Cucurbits

The cucurbit family includes things like courgettes, squashes and pumpkins.

How To Save Seeds From Onions

Vicky's guide to saving seeds from onions

How To Save Seeds From Tomatoes

Vicky's guide to saving seeds from tomatoes

How To Save Seeds From Sunflowers

Vicky's guide to saving seeds from sunflowers

How To Save Seeds From Onions

Vicky's guide to saving seeds from onions

How To Save Seeds From Wildflowers

Vicky's guide to saving seeds from wildflowers

Winnowing - how to clean seeds before storing

Separating the wheat from the chaff. Winnowing is an ancient technique that we still use today to prepare our seeds for the Seed Saving Network.

Planting Peas

Vicky's top tips on planting your peas.

Recipes

Edible Seed Bars

Jo has a nutty energy bar for you that will keep you going between meals.

Kim & Vicky's Nettle Seed Energy Ball Recipe

Kim and Vicky talk us through the recipe for Nettle Seed Energy Balls, from their bestselling book, The Handmade Apothecary.

Mayan Mexican Seed Dip

This pumpkin seed dip is a ray of sunshine in these colder months of the year, enjoy!

Stories

Seed Time

A Poem by Will Burns

Where the Leaves Fall

EarthLore

As people have moved away from rural farming communities to cities in search of work, our relationship with land and seed for food growing has changed from small scale production to large mono-agriculture.

Where the Leaves Fall

Banking Our Future


Ethnobotanist Harriet Gendall joinsa team of scientists on a quest to bank the endangered flora of Kyrgyzstan. Their ambitious venture reveals how seed banking not only supports the flourishing of global biodiversity but can help germinate more meaningful alliances between people and plants.

Where the Leaves Fall

Biodynamic by Nature

André Tranquilini is the estate manager at Waltham Place, a 220 acre organic and biodynamic farm and garden in Berkshire, UK. Originally from Brazil, he has worked extensively as a market gardener and outdoor teacher, and is a founding member of the biodynamic seed company, Living Seeds, in Portugal.

Where the Leaves Fall

Dispersal

Seeds come in as many different shapes, sizes and designs as the plants they are to become. They float, they fly, they stick and they burst. A photographic exploration of the structures and dispersal of seeds.

Where the Leaves Fall

Interview with Vicky Chown

Vicky Chown is a medical herbalist, forager and gardener. She teaches permaculture and urban food growing at OmVed Gardens - where she also co-organises the Seed Saving Network - a biodiverse community of seed savers in London and across the UK.

Where the Leaves Fall