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The 2011 Kitchen Seed-Collecting Competition

The 2011 Kitchen Seed-Collecting Competition will begin January 10th 2011 for 10 days...
All you have to do is grab every seed in your kitchen before it hits the trash can, dry them for better handling (like in an empty egg-box), count and list them, have your photo taken with the seeds - email it and the list to us!

For example:

57 apple seeds
61 pumpkins seeds
35 pear seeds
73 strawberry seeds (they're tiny!)
117 Bell pepper seeds (Capsicum)
59 watermelon seeds
36 cantaloupe seeds
16 beans
27 lemon seeds
18 orange seeds

As many as you can! You'll find that there will be hundreds!
Once the competition is finished, have a photo of you and your seeds taken and email it to us, along with the list of seeds you have collected.
Tell all your friends to enter too and compete against them... There will be age categories and the winners will be profiled on The Seed Creed website and Facebook - and will receive detailed planting/growing instructions for their specific seeds.
All the extra seeds you don't use can be sent to Seeds for Africa! Just make sure they're dry and identified clearly and write a note of best wishes to the villagers who will receive them, telling them where you are from and how old you are.
We will reply to you telling you where they get sent to.
More instructions and information will be posted about the Seeds for Africa soon.

Good hunting!

Collecting your Seeds

Every time mum (or dad) prepares a meal, watch closely for every little seed that could be wasted - even when a tomato is cut, seeds are left on the cutting board. Pumpkins are a bonanza! So many seeds can be harvested. Apple seeds, pears... oranges, beans, capsicum (Green Peppers), apricots, grapes, ... any seeds that you can get your grubby little paws on! Grab 'em, dry 'em (in an egg box on your window sill for example) and read up on this blog site on how and when to plant them, then do it!


Ask mum or dad where you can plant - whether it be in the garden, or in a small planting box where you can take care of it - giving them water and sun and lots of love!


Please take photo's and add them to the blog, telling us all about it. Keep collecting and save seeds so we can send them to villages in Africa. We will start sending to Tanzania first, but many more countries to come, we trust...
 
The best of  luck - hope you have green fingers!

SeedCreed@gmail.com

In our infinite wisdom, we in the consumer society have effectively stunted our kids with warped perceptions of reality and in the process, eradicating many of the most effective education principles that had taken thousands of years to evolve - many symbolic mediums are now brushed off as mumbo-jumbo... rites of passage as example, which had consistently prepared emotionally balanced young indigenous people for village life.

For some mysterious reason, the consumer society is now subjected to a plague of social-ills that just don't exist in pure indigenous cultures... and surprise, surprise - when these same cultures become exposed to consumer ways, guess what happens... they too begin showing susceptibility to the same ills... gosh golly gee! (DAWP!)

Enabling children to create their own medium to learn is a clear benefit - finding their own seeds, preparing the soil, planting, nurturing and ultimately harvesting - the full cycle! This process emulates our potential - without the need to explain the concept, their sub-conscious will grasp the medium and implant the valuable lesson.