Hi, Kim! The brochures were mailed and should have gotten there by now. I’ll let you know if we find out anything else. Thanks for your patience.
Hi Debbie,We have our annual Feeding Ourselves conference in Ireland next saturday 23rd March and I will be talking about Community Seed Banks and Locally Adapted Seeds. Would really like to get an electronic version I could take to a printers so I can hand them out next week if that is at all possible?
All the best Kevin D
Hi, Kevin,
Thank you so much for your interest in the brochure. I’ve pasted a link to the PDF below. The following is a note from Anna who set up the brochure in Canva:
"I would just note when distributing this that the brochure is designed to print full bleed, and this pdf is ready to take to a printer that can do that. (ie they will print on a larger paper and trim the margins) It’s not set up for a home printer.”
We don’t have a home printer version yet, so I hope that this will work for you. We truly appreciate your efforts to spread the word. Let us know if you get any feedback that may help us improve our message. Wishing you a successful event!
Debbie
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Debbie,Thanks so much for this,I will get onto the printers tomorrow as everything is shut(except the pubs) as it is Paddys weekend!
All the best…Kevin
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Thank you for this, Debbie! 
I was able to share the images virtually in my local homesteaders’ FB group, and will provide the brochures for the non-virtual people at our next meeting. We had a seed swap on Saturday, and I couldn’t decide if I felt sheepish or proud of having so many seeds for people to take if they needed. Hubs and I nearly filled a whole table with our collection. 
A whole table of free seeds sounds wonderful! Seed saving can become a sort of addiction, a good one! Did you get many takers? Have fun with your homesteaders’ group. It’ll be great if the group decides to develop a landrace crop together.
Wishing you a good growing season,
Debbie
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I think our table kinda overwhelmed most of them. A few of the other serious gardeners in the group were rifling through them. We also picked out a couple new bell pepper varieties, one of which was developed in this county back near WWI. Old heirloom adapted specifically for this area. Eager to see how it grows and diversify it. 
I think a couple of the folks already have a landrace of their own going, though they wouldn’t call it that. “These are the Johnson Farm beans,” which tells me they’re maybe inbred a bit but also adapted here.
But yes, it would be fun to continuously pass seeds around each year and maybe have a couple crops that we all grow and share together. There is another seed saving group nearby that also saves/swaps seeds. Apparently our table was more than that group brought collectively. I’m shocked. But also, I know people generally stick to what they know. 
May your garden be bountiful and bring joy to your life!
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Are the brochures different than last year? I ask because the ones that I got last year didn’t give much information and I ended up answering about 20 questions every time someone picked one up, which is fine, but when market is busy I just don’t have time to explain it well. Most people have never even heard of landrace crops in my area. I’m trying to get the word out, and even gave out free seeds to the other vendors (of my landraces) to try. At some point I hope y’all start doing the events that can be held regionally so that like-minded landrace gardeners can connect and support one another.
Hi, Jeremy. The brochures have roughly the same information as last year’s. Instead of calling it 'Landrace Gardening", we have changed it to “Adaptation Gardening” which we felt is more descriptive of the method.
It’s wonderful that you are getting lots of questions. Thank you for your efforts to spread the word. I can understand the difficulty of serving customers and explaining landrace gardening at the same time! I hope some will be intrigued enough to go to our website. We would love to host regional events but don’t have the manpower or funding right now. Ideally, every community would have someone willing to host a small event like a seed swap, explain adaptation gardening, and perhaps organize friends and neighbors to develop a community landrace crop.
If anyone in this community is interested in having a table at a local event (seed swap, plant sale, farmers market, community picnic, state fair…), please let me know. We would be glad to provide you with brochures.
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Jeremy, I’d love to hear the questions you’re getting asked repeatedly. We can try to address some of them in the next iteration. The new brochure does have one new panel on our “programs” – it describes the online courses, community, seed share, and farmer support.
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Anyone who is interested in brochures can now download a pdf or order printed copies from the website: Brochure - Pack of 20 – Going to Seed
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Some of the questions I get are how long does it take, how much work is involved, how do I know which seeds to save. Lots of confusing looks lol 
. I need a succinct synapses I can print out or something, but it’s a fairly complex topic and customers seem to get overwhelmed when I start to proselytize about the wonders of landrace growing.
You say customers - are you looking for something to explain our approach to consumers/eaters (not gardeners and farmers)? I assume you’re selling veg at a farmers market? I think that requires a different set of content, something I’d be interested in trying to develop.
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Hi Richard - we don’t have a Spanish version but if you’d like to translate that would be great. Should I send you a Google doc with all the copy? PM me your email if that works.
No I sell only plants and this year some seeds.
That’s very cool you’re selling plants.
If they don’t want to read the book or take the course, we also have this resource guide. but it might not work as a standalone thing, see what you think. I think we have a QR code to it.
Yeah I should probably print a few of those out for people to look through. I’ve been trying to come up with kind of a sales pitch for landrace growing. Something like “Hi human! Are you tired of having to baby your plants like spoiled children? Do you get tired of spraying watering, fertilizing, and working your ass off? Then look no further than land race growing!!!”
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Yes…the same here. I share meals with others who like my cooking…and add the landrace vegetables are used to make a particular dish and discuss flavors…but when I try to recruit gardeners and growers…many have never saved seed…and the look of confusion only deapens. Growing, harvesting, preparing a meal and saving seeds is a know circle of life for seasoned growers but a totally new concept for those just starting out…i guess where does one " insert " a newbie to landrace practices. …its kinda like homesteading because gardening and saving seeds to grow again fits the narrative of being self sufficient?
Hi, Debbie,
Our annual plant exchange is May 4th. I plan to give away packets of my seeds from last season’s pumpkins and squash.
Can I have some brochures to give away as well? Any that are left will go to our local library counter.
Ken Martin
535 Bear Ave
Hot Springs, SD 57747
Hello, Ken,
Thank you for offering to give out brochures! You can order them online now from this page:
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Brochure - Pack of 20
goingtoseed.org
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Have a good spring. Wishing you a successful growing season!
Debbie