Today we are delighted to announce that the Hwb Hadau Cymru/Wales Seed Hub has launched! The Hub is a cooperative of growers producing seed on Welsh farms using agroecological practices. They aim to grow open-pollinated (OP) varieties that are not widely available elsewhere and grow well in the Welsh climate. The Wales Seed Hub is […]
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This year we’ve been busy with collaborators The Landworkers Alliance, the Organic Growers Alliance and the CSA Network to delivering a suite of webinars designed to delve deeper into issues, techniques and opportunities affecting our networks of growers across the UK. Why not join us in reflecting on the year of learning with our ’12 […]
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Application deadline Thursday 21st of March The Seed Sovereignty Programme is pleased to announce a partnership with one of the UK’s top tomato breeders, Simon Crawford. Simon is the breeder of many modern tomato cultivars including the fully blight resistant ‘Crimson Crush’ F1. He has since developed two Open Pollinated lines using Crimson Crush F1 as one […]
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Where did your passion for seed start & how was Real Seeds born? We’ve been growing seeds for around 25 years now. We started when we realised that so many of the varieties available to home gardeners had been bred for the needs of large scale chemical farming. Originally we grew seed for our own […]
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Join us online on the 23rd and 24th of October, 2021 for discussions, workshops and talks celebrating the diversity, opportunities and deep cultural connections of our seeds. The Gathering will be held virtually this year to keep all participants safe and minimise any disruption to programming due to changing pandemic restrictions. However, we […]
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January Blog: A seed saving year @Leen Organics Since signing off for last year at the end of October I haven’t done a whole lot outside in the garden. This became very apparent when I went back at it the second week in January. Confronting me were pepper haulm (that we had been picking from […]
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