Educational Materials 

The following documents are downloadable and printable resources for use during seed saving educational opportunities! For non-Seeds in Common public educational files, please go to our Google Drive.

 Seed Saving

• Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth
• The Seed Garden: The Art and Practice of Seed Saving by Lee Buttala
• The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production by John Navazio
• Seed Savers Exchange: Seed Saving Guide
• Seed Libraries: And Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People by Cindy Conner
• Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds by Scott Chaskey

Seed Inspiration & Story

• Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds by Scott Chaskey
• Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit (Seeing Series) by Teri Dunn Chace
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Seed Keeper By Diane Wilson
• The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food by Janisse Ray
• Seeds: Time Capsules of Life by Rob Kesseler
• First the Seed: The Political Economy of Plant Biotechnology by Jack Kloppenburg

History & Culture

• The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
• Food from the Radical Center: Healing Our Land and Communities by Gary Nabhan
• Where Our Food Comes From – Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine by Gary Nabhan
• Oneness Vs. The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom, Women Unlimited by Vandana Shiva
• Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva
• Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation
• Pushed Out Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West By Ryanne Pilgeram
• Enduring Acequias: Wisdom of the Land, Knowledge of the Water by Juan Estevan Arellano
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry

Gardening, Farming, Agriculture

• Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte
• Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas Elpel
• How to Grow More Vegetables (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land with Less Water Than You Can Imagine by John Jeavons
  
• Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
• The Market Gardener: A Successful Grower's Handbook for Small-Scale Organic Farming by J.M. Fortier
• The Troubles of Invasive Plants zine by Nicole Patrice Hill & Kollibri terre Sonnenblume

Other

• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
• Bite-sized Books
• The Great Cosmic Mother: rediscovering the religion of the earth by Monica Sjöö
• See No Stranger by Valerie Kaur
• The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwarz