What is up everyone? Kevin here from Epic Gardening. Welcome back to an awesome guest

week. We have Melissa Norris. She is a fifth generation homesteader. She loves helping people

use organic methods to grow their own food.

Something that you guys know is right up my alley and she's also the host of the

Pioneering Today podcast. You can find her podcast and her website over at

Melissa K Norris.com just check out the

podcast notes but most thanks for coming on and I'm really excited for today's

topic which is going to be saving heirloom seeds you know as we move into

fall it gets to be that time and I think a lot of gardeners don't have a

ton of experience with this so I'm really interested and excited to hear your tips.

Yeah, Airloom suits is one of my passions and the reason for that is because my family has been

seed saving we have two strains of heirloomb beans that we've been seed

saving in my family for over five generations like a hundred years back and so it has sparked a love

of course of doing heirloom seeds and teaching other people about it because you're

right there's a lot of gardeners don't know all the intricacies of seed saving a lot of us

have just for years have bought our seed every year at the store ordered it online now in the

internet age but seed saving and heirloom seeds bring such an amazing

thing to the garden. So one of the first things that you need to know about seed saving and

why we've titled this with heirloom seeds is that's what you need to start with.

So if you planted seeds and they didn't say airloom seeds, sometimes they'll say heritage seeds or open pollinated on the seed packet, then they're most likely a hybrid

and those are not really ideal candidates to seed safe from.

And the reason is because if you try to seed safe from a hybrid. And the reason is because if you try to seed safe from a hybrid, what happens is the seed will

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