07/29/2026
Dont forget to save seeds from your harvest for next season, to share with your community seed library & seed swaps! Someday seed saving will be illegal like many already are due to patents. Not only is grocery store produce being engineered to be seedless but they are already selling seedless fruit trees AND GMO seeds to the public, making it harder to be self-sustaining.
When we were on a fruit tree buying bonanza a few years ago (pre-beavers), we picked up a seedless persimmon variety. Tag made no mention it was seedless and we didn't know it was seedless until a few years later. And boy was I bummed! That tree will never be able to tell me what kind of winter we will have. Many generations have used persimmon spoon/fork/knife seed shapes to predict the weather. Additionally, persimmons seeds are loaded with concentrated antioxidants, unsaturated fatty acids, and essential minerals, fight free radicals & support cardiovascular health...you know....like how watermelon seeds are loaded with magnesium, iron, zinc etc or how papaya seeds are great to help remove intestinal parasites, reduce inflammation, loaded with antioxidants & more OR apricot seeds are full of B17, i.e. known to cure cancer?
π Thankfully, the other persimmon trees were of different varieties and all seeded.
Anyways...... Can you guess the seeds?! π±
π±π±Then God said, 'I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. - Genesis 1:29π±π±