🌱 Join the Second-Ever Seed Farmer Mentorship!

Ready to take your seed growing to the next level?

The Seed Farmer Mentorship is a guided learning experience designed to help you build confidence, deepen your knowledge, and grow better seed - one crop at a time.

Over seven focused modules, you’ll learn practical techniques, discover essential tools, and get ongoing support from a community of seed growers just like you. Each module includes short, focused videos to get you started, followed by a live session where we dig deeper, answer your questions, and connect as a cohort.

Here are the details of the second ever Seed Farmer Mentorship!

🌾 The 7 Mentorship Modules

All live session are on Thursdays from 1:30pm to 3pm Eastern. Each session will be recorded so you can rewatch later if you wish.

Module 1 - Seed Basics & Choose Your Seed Crops (video immediately!! No live session) Kick off your mentorship with a 26-minute primer on the seed biology concepts that every grower should know. Whether you’re just starting out or refining your craft, this module sets the foundation for the months ahead.
Module 2 - Recording Keeping For Seed Harvest & Cleaning (videos Dec 15. Live Jan 8). Learn how to set up lot numbers and use spreadsheets to track your seed harvest and cleaning. Stay organized through every stage of the season.
Module 3 - Germination Tests, Seed Storage & Inventory Management (Videos Jan 12. Live Jan 22) Master the essentials of running reliable germ tests, storing seeds for long-term viability, and managing your seed inventory.
Module 4 - Crop Planning & Growing Seeds On A Market Garden
(Videos Jan 16. Live Feb 5) Understand how to isolate seed crops, manage rotations, and grow the right number of plants for the yield you need. We’ll also cover how to integrate seed production smoothly into a market garden.
Module 5 - Plant Selection & On Farm Plant Breeding
(Videos Feb 9. Live Feb 19) Discover how to adapt and improve your varieties—and even breed new ones. It’s easier than you think!
Module 6 - Sharing & Selling Seeds (Videos Feb 23. Live Mar 12) Learn different ways to sell seeds including seed contracts, seeds pack and seed racks. You'll also learn how to price your seeds and what you should be thinking about if you're distributing seeds out into the world.
Module 7 - Seed Harvest & Cleaning Techniques (Videos Feb 23. Live Mar 12) Get hands-on with harvesting and cleaning. From DIY tools to commercial setups, we’ll focus on the crops and techniques most relevant to participants.

🌻 Your Personal Seed Projects

As part of the mentorship, you choose one to three crops that you want to work with over the season. Any seed crop is good - vegetables, cut flowers, herbs, grains, you name it.These can be new seed crops that you’ve never grown before or a seed crop that you want to do something different with. It could also be a breeding project.

At the first live session you’ll present what you’re hoping for your seed projects. These will be the main projects we’ll touch base on over the growing season

I’m curious to see what you want to work on!

🌿 Let’s Grow Together

Join a community of dedicated seed growers who are learning, experimenting, and improving their seed work together.
You’ll come away with new skills, a solid framework for your seed projects, and the confidence to keep growing — season after season.

👉 I’d love to have you join the mentorship!

What participants say about the Mentorship

I'd been working for a few years as a market garden farmer and was doing some seed saving just on the side, but eventually came to a point where I really wanted to work on seed saving more intentionally. I learned about the Seed Farmer Mentorship at just the right time! I learned a lot about the business side of seed saving including how to organize and keep clear records on multiple seed projects, how to sell seed on contract, and how to manage inventory. It was also incredibly helpful to have Dan as a resource to help me troubleshoot certain seed saving challenges particular to my exact situation. And meeting other seedy folks from around the country was an added bonus on top of everything else!

- Katie Jesurun

I really appreciated the program — very complete and informative! I really liked that it took place alongside the season, which allowed us to carry out practical steps and then ask questions as they came up. The group discussions were rich, and it was great to learn from others’ experiences.

- Stephanie Wang, Le Rizen

I agree with Stephanie on all points. Real-time discussions always bring up details that we might not have thought of otherwise.

- Eric de Silva, Le Rizen

I really value all the information I learned from The Seed Farmer Mentorship Program - it set me up to confidently and successfully launch my flower seed company. The monthly format was great and allowed me to put my learning into practice in real time throughout the season.

- Cassie Plummer, Jig-Bee Flower Farm

The Seed Farmer Mentorship was a very enriching and stimulating experience that made me want to further my seed knowledge! It really helped me structure seed production on the farm, thanks in part to the Excel documents presented during the training, many of which we have adopted to manage our operations. I love having access to the course recordings and often go back to them when I have questions. It was also very nice to meet a diverse group of producers from different backgrounds and to be able to share our experiences. The training definitely reassured me about what we were doing right in our production and what we could still improve. It was a very relevant, well-organized training program that covered all topics related to seed production in depth and with many concrete examples.

- Manu, Coop du Moulin