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
Just walk around any target or Walmart and you can find a packet or 20 drying silica packets.
Great watch. You cut alot of "umm" s out brother good editing
I'm an island girl… we put our seeds in the sun…
How do you prevent birds & animals from eating your sunflower seeds?
This is amazing! I'm so impressed!!
Wow
Omg it sounded like she snapped that eggplant's neck xD
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
My bees would love you guys.
She's so cool and provides so much information.
Love this ingenuity
Great editing! Your channel has been beyond helpful, thanks.
Very cool video. She has so much enthusiasm!
Seems like we should all be doing this right now,
I’m new to gardening but love it, hypothetical – my veg garden is all set up for the year, can I then leave 2 or 3 of each crop in to go to seed? Or will they all cross pollinate and mess up being in the same garden?
If accurate then thumbs up.
Can this same process be done with all vegetable seeds? Let them over ripe then follow this same process?
People should never need to buy more then one pack of the same seeds. Always harvest seeds and clone to reproduce for free. A bonus is that you can share or sell. Plants are awesome!!!
This was very fun and interesting to watch!! Thanks for the tour!
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This is so FASCINATING! I have so much more appreciation for local (organic) seed growers
I heard my hometown get mentioned! Very cool.
She's clearly got a lot more farm to show, I would definitely love a follow up episode.
hi Brijette!!!
Cool video
As always, great vid mate. I am inclined to start producing seed on a small scale here in scotland too. Great content thanks 🙂
Thank you