Seed Cleaning

How to Clean Seeds

Winnowing

• Winnowing by hand or box fan
• Winnowing with a box fan
• Winnowing with a blow dryer​

Remember to freeze bean and pea seeds for 3+ days to kill bean weevils before storing. 
Need great labels? Check out the Auto Seed Wrapper on our Envelopes and Labels page. (Scroll about half way down. It's a gamer changer!)

Cleaning Specific Crops

• Cleaning tomato seeds part 1 & part 2 
• Cleaning lettuce seeds 
• How to clean various crops - Organic Seed Alliance

Seed Cleaning Tools & Machines

• DIY Seed Cleaners for Small Batches of Seed
• Seed Saving Screen Set 
• Zig Zag Seed Cleaning Machine - Instructions to build a zig-zag aspirator. Suitable for small seed (poppy, lettuce, amaranth) to medium seed (squash, sunflower)
• Zig Zag Seed Cleaner Machine from Farm Folks, City Folks
  
• ​Shellers for corn
• Seed Cleaning Equipment Resources by Organic Seed Alliance (OSA) - link to seed cleaning equipment, methods & storage
• Small to Medium Scale Seed Cleaning Equipment - Organic Seed Alliance 

Zig Zag Cleaner video - This cost $150 USD in materials. The regulator is the expensive piece. We got a free Shop Vac on a Buy Nothing Group.

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