{"id":176,"date":"2012-10-04T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merribee.swcomputerlab.org\/index.php\/2012\/10\/04\/merri-bee-organic-seeds\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T12:42:00","slug":"merri-bee-organic-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/2012\/10\/04\/merri-bee-organic-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Merri Bee Organic Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have grown much of our own food for 30 years here on the farm, &nbsp;great food, and &nbsp; increasingly from home saved seeds. &nbsp;Here &nbsp;is our<a href=\"http:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/seeds\/\"> seed collection<\/a>, so you too can enjoy the wonderful taste of heritage vegetables and rare fruits.<\/p>\n<p>The seeds we sell are produced on our &nbsp;organic farm. They are from plants we have found particularly good ( productive and&nbsp; disease resistant ) over many decades in the Nannup area. Some are the result of a long search for a great tasting vegetable that will grow in the hot&nbsp; dry \/ cold wet conditions we experience here. Therefore these&nbsp;locally bred&nbsp;seeds should grow particularly well in the Southwest of Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>They are&nbsp;open pollinated&nbsp;non hybrid seeds\u2026.meaning you can continue on the tradition by saving seeds for yourself. Select the best all round plant which has the traits you desire.<\/p>\n<p>At Merri Bee Organic Farmacy we have growing over 100 species grwoing in our &nbsp;food forest so we are well placed to provide&nbsp; the seed diversity necessary for a truly sustainable and self-reliant food system. We wish to supply urban and rural organic agriculture movements with an alternative to&nbsp; industrially produced, corporate-owned seeds. It&nbsp; is our hope that many gardeners will look to Merri Bee as a source for local seed sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>The seed revolution is underway as communities do what comes naturally \u2014 grow food, save seeds, and share the harvest. We&#8217;re seeing the rebirth of seed saving as an essential part of home gardening and local resilience.<\/p>\n<p>If you have discovered a really useful Permaculture plant and saved its seeds, we are wanting to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>So far, thankfully, Genetically Engineered crops&nbsp; have not been grown in our Shire of Nannup, Western Australia. The brassica&nbsp; family include a&nbsp; long list of vegetables, ( broccoli, cabbage, &nbsp;kale, rocket, radish, pakchoy to name some) , and you will notice they include&nbsp; the most nutritious vegetables you can eat, particularly effective at preventing cancer. It is possible for G.E. canola to hybridize with brassica vegetables by the agency of pollinating&nbsp; insects. We will continue to keep vigilant regards this concern. For further ( hair raising) information on the dangers of eating genetically engineered plants&nbsp;and their Round Up residues&nbsp;please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/foodwatch.net.au\/about\">Food Watch W.A.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have grown much of our own food for 30 years here on the farm, &nbsp;great food, and &nbsp; increasingly from home saved seeds. &nbsp;Here &nbsp;is our seed collection, so you too can enjoy the wonderful taste of heritage vegetables and rare fruits. The seeds we sell are produced on our &nbsp;organic farm. They are&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/2012\/10\/04\/merri-bee-organic-seeds\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}