When you learn how to save seeds, you learn more than an essential gardening skill: you learn how to create self-reliant food systems in your home and community, and begin a new relationship with the flowers, pollinators, and seeds in your garden. It's like discovering a new world, right in your own backyard! Open up this book to find out how you can be part of a growing movement of seed savers who are rediscovering and sharing Canada's traditional fruits, flowers, and vegetables. Learn about what's in a seed, about the bees and flies that pollinate our crops, about seed-saving tools, and about harvesting, cleaning and storing seeds of all the major vegetable families. Whether you're a beginner who is saving seeds just for fun, or an expert who wants to sell or share seed with others, this guide will be your handy companion. back cover.