We multiply seeds
Until a few decades ago, making your own seeds was a common task within farming, but less and less time is devoted to this task. It is not simple, it requires know-how, in addition to knowing the cultivation and the seed production process.
The project of multiplication and dispersion of local varieties is the heart of the Association and aims to make local varieties known and encourage their consumption. For this reason, the initiative has been taken to offer some local varieties to the general population.
It must be said that this is a project that started in 2011 and currently has 93 local varieties of vegetables, legumes and flowers, which are obtained thanks to the work of the network of seed multipliers, formed by 20 farmers. Most varieties that multiply have the organic production seal endorsed by the Balearic Council for Ecological Agricultural Production (CBPAE).
Aquestes llavors es poden adquirir a 47 punts de venta físics (40 a Mallorca, 2 a Menorca i 5 a Eivissa) i a la nostra botiga en línia. A més, l’Associació treballa en la introducció de noves varietats i en la millora de les actuals, per tal d’aportar a les persones interessades una àmplia gamma de varietats locals.
Where can you find our seeds of local varieties?
També a la nostra oficina al carrer de la Santa Creu, 31 (antic Escorxador), 07260 Porreres, de dilluns a dijous de 9 a 15 h. Si no te va bé aquest horari, ens pots telefonar to find a suitable time, als 693 066 858 / 623 250 278 / 722 782 536.
The process of seed multiplication
Check out our 2025 seed catalog
The multipliers
Andreu Adrover
CAN PISTOLA, FELANITX AGROECOLOGICAL PRACTICES
Agromart, Rafel Figuera
Sa Volta/Son Mesquida, Porreres/Felanitx
Ca na Justa, Cati Vaquer and Pep Pou
Ca na Justa, Porreres
RAFEL DALMAU ESTELRICH
SON SOLER, SON MESQUIDA, FELANITX Seal of the CBPAE
Joan Garcías Ripoll
Son Ripoll, Montuïri Seal of the CBPAE
Especies Crespí, Llorenç Tortella
Son Pou Nou, Vilafranca Seal of the CBPAE
Estel de Llevant Association
Sa Vall, Manacor Seal of the CBPAE
Toni Feliu Pou
So na Jaume Nou /Sant Jordi, Palma CBPAE Seal
Miquel Ángel Lobo Ruiz
Mainou, Porreres Seal of the CBPAE
GOB, La Trapa volunteers
La Trapa Sant Elm, Andratx Seal of the CBPAE
Miquel Villalonga Maimó
SON FRARE, PETRA SEAL OF THE CBPAE
Pere Ferragut
Can Delomo, Algaida Seal of the CBPAE
Xesc Nicolau Català
Horteta, Sant Joan Seal of the CBPAE
Toni Suñer Monserrat
S'Aljub den Mel, Cas Concos, Felanitx Seal of the CBPAE
Pep Barceló
Son Valls, Porreres Seal of the CBPAE
Toni Sureda Nicolau
Son Vell Son Macià, Manacor Seal of the CBPAE
Biel Torrens
Can Caló, Ruberts, Sencelles Seal of the CBPAE
PEDRO OSUNA
SES TERRES, ARTÀ SEAL OF THE CBPAE
Toni Calafell
Sa Vinyeta, Binissalem CBPAE Seal
Donate to the seed multiplication project
This is the heart of the association's project and aims to raise awareness of local varieties and encourage their consumption.
Informative videos
During 2020 and the beginning of 2021, different videos were made about our organization's seed multiplication project. The idea came from visualizing the task of the seed multiplier, a very careful and little-known task. Therefore, 10 thematic videos were made, which touch on different topics related to local varieties and the cultivated biodiversity of Mallorca.
Seed cleaning
The cleaning of the seed is a very important part of the multiplication process, as it allows to obtain a more viable seed, discarding the empty, small seeds that certainly do not have germination capacity. Together with the extraction, they are very laborious but totally invisible tasks.
In our organization, we do it in a very artisanal way with sieves and small machines such as a fig-heading machine, a simple manual winnowing machine or a vacuum cleaner made by some collaborators. With our tools you can do part of this task, but you don't get a perfectly clean seed like current technology allows. That is why to guarantee a maximum seed quality it is necessary to make a considerable investment in specific machinery for its cleaning.
Some machines allow you to save many hours of cleaning, since they cup the entire fruit and separate the seed from the pulp. Others are more specific for each process, such as those that separate the straw from the seed through mechanical sieves, or the densimetric tables that separate the empty seeds from the full ones, among others. There are also other machines that pack the seed automatically, allowing the process to be finished optimally.
Thanks to these machines, the work can be done in a more agile way. Currently, we have proposed to gradually acquire the ones we need most to make our project profitable.
Do you want to help us achieve this? Thank you for your support.
Establishments selling seeds
Consult the full list of stores. Now you can also find all our local varieties in the online store, don't forget to visit it.
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