“David Mitman, one of the founding members of South Sound Seed Stewards,
holds a mylar bag used to preserve seeds. The bag can extend the life of seeds by years.”
Photo credit: Steven Wyble, Nisqually Valley News
© Copyright 2014, Nisqually Valley News

RSE students and Yelm-area residents comprise the founders list and Board of Directors of the non-profit South Sound Seed Stewards, featured in the Nisqaully Valley News January 10, 2014.
Their mission is simple in following one of the principles of Ramtha’s Recommendations for Sovereignty:
“Knowing that in our present geopolitical state, many seed companies, which have provided the non-hybrid and open-pollinated varieties, are no longer in business and/or are producing hybrid varieties mainly for the commercial growers, South Sound Seed Stewards has organized.”
The organization is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

From Nisqually Valley News reporter Steve Wyble:
“South Sound Seed Stewards Aims to Empower”
“South Sound Seed Stewards is on a mission to save, well … seeds.

Gardening isn’t rocket science, after all — it’s tougher.

At least, so says David Mitman, past president and one of the founding members of South Sound Seed Stewards.”

“South Sound Seed Stewards — often abbreviated to S4 — kicks off its 20th year of holding monthly classes 7 p.m. Jan. 13 at Yelm Adult Community Center. Registration starts at 6 p.m.

Throughout the year, the group features classes on seed saving, gardening and food preservation; picnics and potlucks; a seed exchange in November; and guest speakers on everything from slugs to bats.

Mitman, of Eatonville, helped found the nonprofit organization in 1994. He and a few other avid gardeners in the area saw a need for a seed saving group that also taught people gardening skills, he said. The group has members in Eatonville, Yelm, Roy and McKenna.

The groups’ founders also wanted to ensure certain varieties of vegetables that were no longer available commercially would continue to be grown.”
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– This issue is even more pertinent with this recent story:
Aaron Dykes, Truthstream reports in Signs Of The Times (SOTT.net), January 11, 2014 that the European Union is to consider a proposal to ban heirloom seeds and criminalize unregistered gardens.
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– Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
On the production and making available on the market of plant reproductive material
plant reproductive material law)
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