Fruit Tree Tour: Seed Balls

As a member or the Fruit Tree Tour crew, Joe explains the importance of Seed Ball making as a part of the hands on learning program that FTT brings to schools every spring. Traveling in a veggie oil-powered caravan, 25-earth educators from Common Vision teach students about sustainable ecology through a day long program. The goal of this annual tour is to develop working relationships with teachers and administrators to integrate sustainability and nutrition into schools' curricula and landscapes.

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[spreadingcolor]

that's so cool. is the a recipe in terms of the amount of clay, compost, seeds, etc.? or show grab and put them together?

would love to teach that activity during this season.

cool video.

[aWAKEtrain]

Just go for it!

You can get clay trimmings from local potters in you area and them crush them up in a bucket and or sift them through a screen.

Our local hardware store gave us all of the previous seasons seed packets. Also, local farmers gave us bags of their cover crop seeds.

The kids were asked to research different guilds or companion plants and then made unique seed mixtures.

Try different ratios of clay, soil and seeds.

The real yield was engaging the kids.

[bopn]

There are torrents of the one straw revolution online.

[chaska108]

thanks for posting this video, seed balls are awsome. we are making a seed ball project in Peru in the sacred valley of the incas.

[ashevilliage]

my seed balls

speak to ya'll

while creepin through the urbin sprawl

so word to ya'll with perfect calls

of harvest rythms for the spring summer, winter, fall.

[ashevilliage]

good on ya!

[geofungr]

future