Hello my beautiful plants! As you already know, I'm passionate about peasant seeds, natural and reproducible, which I've been lucky enough to obtain thanks to various farmers from father to son, farmers and/or seed growers. In this article, I'd like to introduce you to Organic Seed, the range of seeds connected to the elements of our universe. It offers a wide choice of hardy, ancient and local seeds ‘from a respected land worked with love and kindness’.
The founders of this range are brothers Cyriaque and Judicaël Crosnier Mangeat, and they have set up in Rousset, near Aix-en-Provence, a militant and independent French family seed company specialising at 100% in organic and biodynamic seeds: Agrosemens (Latin for ‘he who sows seeds’). Their aim is to help people rediscover healthy agriculture that respects the environment and therefore the consumer, to take care of the Earth in order to take care of people, and to help maintain the plant biodiversity that has been inherited. In 2002, Organic Seed is born.
It's only natural that I should introduce you to this range of caring seeds.
The Production Manager, Mathieu Conseil, and the Crop Manager at the Petit Sambuc seed and experimental farm, Julien Bourrell, help us to understand seed production better.
«Seed production is a choice of main or secondary activity on market garden farms. This choice is often made following an awareness of the need to increase the farm's autonomy and reduce costs. Producing your own seeds also allows you to multiply, and even select, varieties that are suited to your soil and climate, your markets, your tastes...»,
They also qualify the multiplication professions: «Our farmer multipliers have mainly a multiplication role and sometimes a maintenance role. In this case, they carry out conservative selection work, which aims not to improve the varieties, but to ensure that they remain consistent with their initial description. In some cases, an improvement selection may be carried out... We work with 2 types of farmer propagators. Seed specialists, who only produce and sell seed, have the sole aim of producing quality seed, and all their production is dedicated to this. Others are market-gardeners, and may need to add value to vegetables on the one hand and seeds on the other.»
This way of working allows us to obtain beautiful, varied and heterogeneous seeds of undeniable quality. What's more, the special feature of these biodynamically-grown seeds is that they form a bridge between heaven and earth, and speak to the stars, the sun and the moon. In this way, they receive their blessing and benefit from their synergy. During my life's journey, I received the revelation that seeds were living energies in motion, not lifeless 'seeds'. These seeds are full of consciousness, and their memory contains the love of heaven and earth.
During my seed-giving ritual, I presented organic seeds to an audience of spiritual entrepreneurs. They passed the seeds from hand to hand, projecting all their love for them, the planet and themselves. Charged with the beautiful intentions of each person, a beautiful egregore of energy enveloped all the sensitive beings present at this ritual and amplified the aura of these seeds. Thus charged with love, they continue to perpetuate the benevolent work of heaven and earth, and of our dear M. Conseil and J. Bourrell.
As a gift, I am passing on some advice from M. Conseil and J. Bourrell for the lucky recipients of Semences Bio - Agrosemens’ seeds:
- Use a balanced compost, i.e. a mixture of 50% of plant compost + 50% of cattle manure compost - Maintenance dose: 2kg per m² of garden.
- Loosen the soil in your garden vertically using a grelinette.
- Use organic mulch: straw, leaves, grass clippings, etc.
- Apply macerations of Comfrey and Nettle when watering to boost the microbiology of your garden soil.
