Garden of Hope and Honey: ECS launches outdoor learning initiative “As we have all seen in the past year with the covid-19 pandemic the interest in gardening has gone up but the interest in seed saving hasn’t necessarily gone up,” said Clarkson.On Tuesday, Clarkson held a community seed saving forum at the garden to teach gardeners how to collect seeds from their own plants to be used for next year’s crop.“You are literally saving your seeds putting them in a little box and you are putting next year’s garden away in the fall for next year,” she said.Clarkson says the idea to hold a workshop on seed harvesting was prompted by a shortage of fruit and vegetable seeds at the height of the pandemic last year.“I had gardeners coming up to me.