The Seed Farmer: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using and Selling Your Own Seeds

by Dan Brisebois, 256 pages, 7½ x 9, softcover. Canadian farmer and seed grower Dan Brisebois wrote this excellent seed-growing guide with market farmers in mind, and it’s just as useful on a home or community-garden scale. Brisebois offers a solid place to start for any seed grower, with practical and clear advice about how to choose, grow, harvest, clean and store your first seed crops. Whether your goal is to select seed adapted to your bioregion, breed a new or save an old variety, become more self-reliant, integrate a seed crop into your farm operation, or all of the above, this book will be an essential resource: accessible, smart and inspiring. Brisebois’s Seed Farmer podcast makes an engaging supplement to the book. In a time when so much feels wrong in the world, saving and sharing seeds always feels right. -Elisabeth Benjamin