Laurie St.Lyon

Fear is rarely logical.

The best way is for her to join a bee keeping club/society,
Then she can see for herself from inside a bee suit at a distance she chooses there is nothing to fear.
Moving closer each time over a season she may well end up as a bee keeper.

I was not too enamored of the idea but my ex-wife was so she took a course and got some bees and I ended up as the bee keeper!
I have two colonies now and she none!

One step at a time.

Your other option is to keep them somewhere near your home rather than in it. A neighbors garden? Farmer field? Bit of scrub land? Bees are adaptable just ensure they have forage within a reasonable are and a source of water.

Hi Dan,

I grant you that saving seeds is a short term solutions but I was more concerned about how you actually save seeds from your own plants. How do you harvest them?
Take my onions. I like big round onions and get through quite a lot in a year. I use them in stews, curries, pasta, gravy ( I make a good onion gravy) etc.
But I buy sets to plant and grow. I have never harvested seeds. What will I do when there are no sets to buy?
I also figured that if I have 30 onions and keep two that I allow to run to seed I must get more than thirty seeds I can plant and have ready for next year but, what are the mechanics of seed harvesting , how do I know they are ready? Then there are other plants that produce seeds. Pod veges (peas beans, etc) it is pretty clear. But other plants its no so clear.

Hence my question. Also I am a great believer in not wasting money so if I can buy on onion then keep on reproducing ad infinitem that is money well spent.

I was working away on my allotment today putting some potatoes in and looking at what else I was going to plant this year.
I have a bag of assorted seeds that I was going to germinate and then plant out rather than buy plants. So cold and wet so far and I need to get the plants in so will have to buy them.
Annoying but the local Council have a 75% in cultivation rule and sent me a letter saying get it sorted in 4 weeks! or lose the plot!

Now I grant you some say I lost the plot years ago! However, looking at my seeds and some spring onions that had gone to seed I had a sudden thought..
I see lots about growing your own food. Excellent.
I see lots of prepper/homestead stuff about off-grid living etc. Very good.

However, no one seems to explain about how you can grow food from your OWN seeds! After all in a SHTF scenario there will be no seed store to buy from.
So exactly how do you do it! I actually do not know. Does anyone else?