Greetings, my beautiful plants! As you already know, I have a passion for natural, reproducible farm-saved seeds, which I have been lucky enough to obtain from various farmers and/or seed companies. In this article, I’d like to introduce you to La Semence Bio®, the range of seeds connected to the elements of our universe. It offers a wide choice of hardy, ancient and local seeds grown ‘on land respected and 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 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 cultivated inherited plant biodiversity. In 2002, La Semence Bio® was born.
It’s only natural that I should introduce you to this range of caring seeds.
Mathieu Conseil, Production Manager, and Julien Bourrell, Crop Manager at the Petit Sambuc seed and experimental farm, 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, or even select, varieties that are suited to your soil and climate, your markets, your tastes…”,
They also qualify the multiplication professions: “Our multiplication farmers mainly have a multiplication role and sometimes a maintenance role. In this case, they carry out conservative selection work, the aim of which is not to improve varieties but to ensure that they remain true to 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’. Full of consciousness, these seeds incorporate the love of heaven and earth into their memory.
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’d like to pass on a few tips from M. Conseil and J. Bourrell for the lucky recipients of Semences Bio- Agrosemens’ seed :
- Use a balanced compost, i.e. a mixture of 50% plant compost + 50% cattle manure compost – Maintenance dose: 2kg per m² of garden.
- Loosen the soil in the garden vertically using a grelinette.
- Use organic mulch: straw, leaves, lawn clippings, etc.
- Apply macerations of Comfrey (consoude) and Nettle when watering to boost the microbiology of the garden soil.
