Quitting Your Job to Farm Seeds For a Living? 🌱
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- My friend Brijette used to be a green interior designer, making beautiful living walls. Not anymore. Now she farms for seeds in her own backyard in San Diego, CA and sells them to local farmers, gardeners, and on the internet.
She's one of, if not THE only certified organic local seed producer in the United States.
Saving seeds and creating new varieties that are adapted to local microclimates is vital in our changing climate. I think you're going to see a lot more "Brijettes" in the future...and she's leading the way.
In today's episode, I visit Brijette and we walk through the process of harvesting eggplants for seed, processing them, drying them, and grading them for quality. You'll learn how Brijette got started, but also super-interesting info about how the seeds you buy at the garden center actually get into those packets. We also talk a bit about heirloom seeds and how to save them.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
1:58 - Black Beauty Eggplants
3:40 - Harvesting Seed Eggplants
7:53 - Getting Seeds Out of Eggplants
13:50 - Grading Dried Eggplant Seeds
19:34 - Using the Aspirator to Clean Seeds
23:05 - Outro
How is this profitable? 1/4 Acre only and she is going to sit and pick every seed then package them and sell them. Doesn't make sense. Maybe doing this for your own replanting or if you had hundreds of acres and a lot of employees.
I just Googled San Diego Seed Company and they have a Milwaukee Wisconsin phone number.
I give her a ton of credit. That's a helluva lot if work.
Wow! You're a very efficient and organized person.
take all the separated non seeds and weak seeds and package/sell them as a green manure blend. every cent counts.
SEED SAVING SHOULD BE A COMMON PRACTICE!
I’m guessing it will soon be illegal to collect and save seeds. Just as it is in many places to have a garden.
Linda NWFirefighter ur dumb why would it be Illegal to have a garden if you can grow weed legal in some states
@@slumpedguy9382 She's right everyone's freedoms are being taken away in the west, open your eyes. All forms of self sustainability will be gone eventually. All food will be GMO and lab grown meat.
Paladin Smith even if it does become illegal I’m still gonna grow my own food. How the frik are they gonna stop me so Many people grow weed illegally they aint gonna stop me bro.
@@slumpedguy9382 Same here mate i agree, if everyone was to do it they can't arrest us all.
Just a heads up though as they want us on our knees reliant on them.
this video is very encouraging to know that some producers are sincere about their products..integrity sells.
Diane Black I agree! I smiled so much while watching this. 🌱
@@Thankful_. ..absolutely.
This was really interesting! I would have loved to learned more about the “quitting your job to grow seed” part of their story, too!
Bidjette taught classes to Walter Anderson nursery. great teacher
Amazing video, I used to watch my grandparents doing this with the winds in the high andes of Perú when i was a kid and they were keeping their seeds for barley, potatoes, corn, quinoa, wheat, faba beans, etc in their little room basement, they were also use as money between all the farmers to trade others seeds or get help to harvest or exchange for cheese, milk or meat between them like the Inca civilization used to do it. Thank you for this video!!
Interesting! I've been telling my husband that if the SHTF money will not be the currency, but Seeds, canned foods, gardening, trade/technical skills are what would be needed.
thank you for sharing!
Lovely to hear about this, thanks so much
That is amazing..
This video made me so happy! I'm starting a seed business ,for my community, and I love how willing the other seed businesses are to share trade secrets! It put me at ease.
Well unless you are talking about elite marijuana genetics they are not really worth any money.
What a fantastic idea! Good job!
That's what I love about the plant / green community. People love sharing info
We saved seeds each year when growing up in west Georgia. I remember we put beans in an old sack or pillow case and hung it up to dry inside the house. No air conditioning in those days but we had box fans.👍 Thanks.
Harvesting seeds is quite a bit more involved than I thought. I happily lay down my money and support my local seed companies! Thanks for such a fun video!
Im a believer of seed-saving! Increasing adaptability of plant 💜
Yes the seed is storing that years information to raise survivability in future years. Epigenetics and terroir...
One year later I am SOOO grateful for this video!! I just used the water method to filter down my radish seeds. I’m sooo excited to try this method with other seeds as well. THANK YOU! 🙏🏾🌱💫
Radish seeds are like lettuce seeds where you can dry in pod, crumble them is a bin with hands & then blow out the chaff by dumping from one bin to another & use the wind or your lungs.
Nice one guys, I sell seeds too here in Australia. Main reason is because it's hard to get good organic seeds. Australia is about to start treating all organic seeds for bio security reasons.
Great to see your taking control of your seeds locally, so much in this,,a real science as you know.
Love the vids,,,thanks so much
Marty Ware
This is awesome Marty, didn't know that Australia was going to do that. Good on you for taking some control
@@epicgardening I am a way off yet getting to the stage here seen on this farm, but plan to get there eventually..so much to learn...loved the video,,helps me see that it's really possible.
Cheers
Marty
let me know what other types of seed saving related videos you'd like to see Marty
Creating a manipulative disaster from a healthy viable seed! People have to know where their food comes from!
But you're happy to use amazon, hmmmm so Greenpatch - Eden - Phoenix - greenharvest et al are all bad but you're a good'en, even though you are happy to use a company that does everything in its power to destroy local economies no worries mate... Love the honesty
I love how forthright this lady is 😀
My family plans on going off grid and I'm trying to find everything that would help us and this is great.
The clipper machine is so cool!
Wait, the aspirator is even cooler!
I love 💟 how Brijette radiates this beautiful aura , and very knowledgeable and passionate about what she does
I love how you collaborate with people, who have authority in gardening..Super love this and your vid feat Charles Dowding 😍😍
This is by far one of your top 2 videos you've ever done! Thank you for this. Such a wealth of information and so inspirational!!!
I find it so refreshing that you feature others on your channel!! Love love love!
I love her! Her personality and passion is showing from start to finish. ❤
Love the regionally adapted note. Fairly crucial so you’re not growing a northern adapted plant in the hot humid South
holy crap!!!!! regionally adapted genetics cannot be overstated enough. absolutely beautiful! inspiring!!!
12:43 "Always want to be careful at the end to not blow your load". Lol she gets it.
I'm located in San Diego too and buy from San Diego Seed Company all the time - I took a class from Brijette @San Diego Seed Company at Cuyamaca College with my husband. She is full of knowledge. Thank you so much for sharing, hope to tour her garden some day ;o)
She does tours once a month, I think! Thanks for tuning in
and who you see here is who she is. cool person
This particular year (in Britain at least), due to Covid-19 vegetable seeds became rather scarce because a lot more people decided to turn to gardening during lockdown.
I think a lot of us classed as high-risk suddenly found something quite repellent about 'someone else' harvesting your fresh produce, just waiting to hear of an outbreak of Covid-19 among field workers.
Thus, a lot of seed varieties sold out really fast, especially all the easier, beginner types like radishes, lettuce and beetroot. In fact, it was as well my neighbour decided to grow some of her own plants too, because we each couldn't find different things and were able to swap.
I also found there were still some unusual vegetable seeds available, those not found in your everyday supermarkets. I trialled some Japanese vegetable seeds this year, and these have worked well in Scotland. That's been interesting, discovering new flavours.
I'm already an ex-professional gardener and do save some seeds annually. Really stepping up my 'saving' this year, considering many more varieties. I have several vegetables in the flowering and pod stage right now.
I certainly don't have the machinery your friend has, and Scotland is a very humid place, but I do have 3 dehumidifiers around the home, and hanging seeds in fine mesh bags above one dehumidifier for a couple of days does the trick for the varieties I have stored so far.
This was cool to see all the work going into the seed packet :) Thank you!
Very interesting! I had no idea how labor intensive it is to process seeds. She definitely is passionate about her company and growing community. 😊
This person was what the difference is between The genuine article and what a poser is. The way that she communicated made it so easy to learn. And it was a pleasure to listen to her and know she knew exactly what she was teaching. Now I want to learn more. Yep. Genuine article.
So wonderful to see youg people making a difference. I sell seedlings and as my business grows, this would be my next step. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep these videos coming❤ Learning tons!
Hello from Visalia, CA starting my own little garden, I'm happy to have run into this video.
Great information, thank you!
B, I have been a follower as you know. Last night I saw this video while I was perusing utube and loved how you showed the process of waiting for seeds to be ripe, harvesting, processing, packaging, .. the best your still very excited about educating!
Praise our Creator, for inspiring this lovely person into protecting our future seeds. May she continue to teach anyone that wants know about seeds, and may her endeavors flourish, like the seeds.
Amen!
Learnt so much from this video and really pleased my local public library in Western Australia is doing a seed/cutting swap day.
Very amazing !! Didn’t know they are local to me. Power to you and your business and hopes that Monsanto doesn’t try to destroy any of your hard work
She is incredible, her idea is wonderful, and is a really big surprize she is the only certified organic seed producer in the US...that is incredible
She said URBAN organic seed farm.
Those old machines are gorgeous. Old tech is amazingly productive. I worked voluntarily on a veg farm and separation of spuds from soil was amazing!
Old tech is so fun to use!
@@epicgardening absolutely. Elegant and simple. Us young folk can learn a lot. Most importantly carry it on... hopefully
Okay, this video is so awesome. It is difficult NOT to get knocked out of character a bit when a pretty girl says: "You just want to be careful at the end not to... blow your load." Kevin's chuckle said it all.
Well done. You two made an interesting interview.
It helps me know the process better. Thank you.
Thank you for introducing me to SanDiegoSeedCompany. I love this approach and will buy seed here to perk up my own local stock for hardiness and pest resistance.
Impressive. Very inspiring. It just so happens last week I let a bitter gourd go to seed, ripe orange red, and harvested total of six good seeds. But that's good enough for me. It'll give me likely four vines that'll yield if not more at least 20 fruits each. Thank you for a wonderful presentation.
This is so FASCINATING! I have so much more appreciation for local (organic) seed growers
That is a lot of equipment! More detailed process than I would have imagined. Thanks for posting! Hello from San Luis Obispo, CA (a few hours north)
Hello neighbor!
That was great to see! Very interesting. I save a few seeds from tomatoes that I eat. Never thought about what it takes to actually save seed from other plants etc. THANK YOU BOTH!
Amazing! I've been collecting my own seeds and growing them for years, but only for my family. Although I do share seeds with others, along with some of the plants as they grow. I found this video very interesting and informative. I live in Cornwall, UK
I love the idea of continuing traditional selective breeding for micro climates and I wish Brijette and her company the best of luck for the future.
That girl's a gem ! Love to see that much passion
I am mesmerized by what you’re doing! Thank you for sharing ❣️❣️❣️
I never even knew this was a thing....Amazing and very informative. She knows her business well.
Really enjoyed seeing the whole process. I’m just a novice gardener but I watch a lot of these farm videos and they never fully explain how they get to the final product. Thanks!
Thank you! I wanted to show the entire process to build respect for seed farmers and the process they go through...it's a lot of work!
I am so glad I bought their seeds. Very awesome story!
That's cool! Glad you enjoyed
She's so cool and provides so much information.
My favorite video so far. I've winnowed seed before. This is uptown!
This was a nice change from gardening videos, seeing where seeds come from. Very enjoyable, I will look for a local grower here in OHio,
I just started saving heirlooms this year! Can't wait until next spring to see how I did 🤞 Very cool seed company!
Fascinating process, thanks so much for showing us so many of the steps and explaining each so well. Would be good for kids to see something like this to see how seeds are processed.
This is fantastic! Thank you EG for this valuable episode.
Was just considering saving as much seed as possible from the garden last night, looking forward to watching/learning and doing what I can
This was so awesome!! When I move back to California, I’ll be buying my seeds here ✅
Such an awesome Episode! Really enjoyed being behind the scenes!
Great editing! Your channel has been beyond helpful, thanks.
Those seeds are worth every penny!! Amazing long process to get seeds into those packages!!
Thanks for the interesting tour. I love the old time machinery.
I like her - Great energy and personality
This was very fun and interesting to watch!! Thanks for the tour!
Loved that video, so educational. I try every year to do a little more of my own seed saving. Actually trying out a new miniature watermelon seed today. Windowsill drying. I put some directly in the garden last week and so far I haven't seen anything.
This was super cool to learn about. Thank you for making this video!
This is awesome! Thank you for the great information!! So inspiring 🙂
this is so intense lol did not expect so many steps!! Can't wait to buy my seeds next spring ^_^
we do the same but not for a living;we collect Frisian sorts of beans,carrots,onions,grains,potatoes and othes sorts that have a connection with Frisian culture;we sell them in shops in order to cover the costs but is is a heavy job!very good for you to do this and a lot of people see the necessity of this way of collecting!have a good life and keep save and sound!
Very cool video. She has so much enthusiasm!
Amazing episode. Very very interesting and helpful.
Yep - not only is home saved seed adapted to your own microclimate, but you know the seed is FRESH - which is an issue when you buy in seed. I always have a bed or two set aside just for seed production - they're not cropped at all (except for seed). I loved this video - wonderful! I'd be happy to buy seed from Brijette, but I'm in Australia..
Great point - that freshness factor is a big thing! Thanks for watching :)
It's a total classic..That was awesome! What a great interview.
Oh yeah?
I found you from our channel. Thank you very much for putting out this video, I really enjoy gardening for many years. I heard from someone else that money doesn't grow trees, BUT it really does, along with plants. Plus its money you can eat. looking forward to more videos. All the best, Paul
Thanks for stopping by Paul! Money indeed does grow on trees
Thanks a bunch, excellent... and I am going to be “very careful toward the end” from now on🙏
Really enjoyed this episode, thanks so much!
This is an amazing video! Thanks for explaining the process. Will check out your site.
This is amazing! I'm so impressed!!
Love, love, LOVE San Diego Seed co. Such a great video!
Absolutely fascinating. I bought San Diego Seed Company seeds for the first time this year! Sunset zone 23, South Bonsall
We need more people like you 💕💕
I love how much work you do, loved the video!
Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed watching and learning.😊
This video is amazing! Thank you! ❤️
very interesting video!! Thankyou!!!most of my vegies, I grew this year were mostly just for seed..& compost....I thought I was wierd, but now I have learnt even more...BEST video!!
I just purchased lots of your seeds at Green Thumb in San Marcos. Excited!!!
Hey thanks for the video ! Really loved to see how seeds get processed, learned a lot ✨
this video answered all my questions. Thanks so much.
Such a cool Video!! Thanks Kevin and Brijette! Now I know how all the seeds I get from Etsy are done! And how to collect my own seeds more efficiently 🌳✌😁🌳
I didn't notice any isolating of flowers. Possibly because everything was beyond the pollination stage. If you produce open pollinated seeds, the offspring will be a crap shoot. That's one of the major drawbacks of producing seed for the market.
Awesome Brijette!
See you tomorrow!
The byproduct the ground up pulp from most plants can be fermented and extracted to be used as a natural nutrient for plants. Her compost pile is probably so awesome and diverse
This is really interesting to see the whole process of seed harvesting
Awesome video. Thank you for making this! Loved it! I learned a lot about seeds today! Fascinating! I had no idea there was so much to know! So cool that you have the only organic seed farm in America! That's AMAZING!*. I will definitely forward this to someone who loves plants and wants to learn more! Thanks again! 💚
Urban organic seed farm!
cool to see this local-scale operation!
Wow super cool thanks for sharing this video,learned a lot and was inspiring to say the least.
This was awesome to watch. Thank you for keeping us informed. Not going to lie... Kind of wish we got to see what the fan drying looked like. 😅
i grow to eat. i have saved my seeds each season, for decades. i pick the first ripe fruit from everything to save the seeds. would love to grow to sell seeds.
Loved her job😍
Brijette is my newest hero!
Great video and nice look into what goes on in collecting seeds very educational. 😊 gracias 🙏