Growing seed for harvest 1: Introduction & Lettuce

In the first of a new series, Colin Walker of the Koanga Institute talks to Annie Wilson about saving heritage seed.

Koanga has received such a multitude of New Zealand’s heritage seeds over the last twenty years from gardeners around the country, that it now requires considerable resources to keep them alive. The scale of the collection is huge and maintaining the viability of all the cultivars requires growing out a certain number of lines to a certain scale, every year.

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