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Seasons Vol. 14 No. 3 Participants at the recent “Saving Seed for Vegetable Production” field day were inspired by Peter Coxhead’s enthusiasm and knowledge for seed saving (see the Council Report). Peter kindly agreed to write some articles on saving seed. In this issue there are 2 articles – “Saving Seed for Tomatoes” and “Growing and Saving Corn for Seed”. :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 14 No. 2 The Joint Select Committee, which was established to investigate the most appropriate direction with regard to Gene Technology, for agriculture in Tasmania, has received written submissions, and has now invited some groups and individuals to present verbal evidence. T.O.P. has been asked to give verbal evidence, as have some individual T.O.P. members. :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 14 No. 1 The Tasmanian Government has recently established a Joint Select Committee to look at the future of gene technology in primary industries in Tasmania. A submission to this committee was sent on behalf of the T.O.P. Council and is reprinted in this issue. Individual T.O.P. members also made submissions. :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 13 No. 4 What is the future agriculture – large scale farming driven by the multinationals or small scale, community based organic farming? :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 13 No. 3 According to Chain Reaction, June 2006 (published by Friends of the Earth Australia) “there is already a wide range of applications of nano-technology to the food industry, some of which are available in Australia.” :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 13 No. 2 The Draft Climate Change Strategy for Tasmania (Tasmanian Government, 2006), published by the Department of Primary Industries and Water, states that “it is clear that climate change will affect Tasmania” (p5). :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 13 No. 1 The Organic Coalition of Tasmania held a Forum in August, the theme being “converting to organics”. Four speakers were invited to speak on their experiences in converting to certified organic production. Two of those speakers were T.O.P. producers, who have kindly given permission for their talks to be printed in this issue. :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 12 No. 4 T.O.P. producer Rod Le Lievre recently attended a field day on ‘sustainable land management’. He was appalled at the emphasis placed on farm inputs; supposedly needed to replace nutrients that leave the farm as produce. He has provided us with a report on the day. :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 12 No. 3 Those of us who attended the field day at Peter Coxhead’s property were inspired by his “natural gardening” approach. Peter’s aim is to increase the fertility of his soil using natural processes, and by recycling rather than relying on inputs. A report on the field day is included in the Feature Articles. :: more details Price: $3.00

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Seasons Vol. 12 No. 2 Have you ever thought how nutrients from rural soils are lost, via the food produced, to urban waste disposal systems both within Australia and overseas? Are our soils becoming more depleted of nutrients? Helen Scott-Orr discusses this issue in our feature article “Organic recycling & sustainable food production”. :: more details Price: $3.00