We recently ran a webinar in collaboration with The Landworkers Alliance, the Community Supported Agriculture Network, and the Organic Growers Alliance. We were joined by Kate and Ben from Real Seeds, who gave us a virtual tour of their site and walked us through their fine-tuned processing and shipping system. It was great to get […]
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To close our Seed Gathering 2023 we were joined by poet and performer Liv Torc who gave her powerful, inspirational take on the vital work of our networks. Hot Poets is an ambitious, award-winning, internationally focused project turned CIC, working to powerfully communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry. You can […]
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Seed Training in Scotland Saturday 14 July, 10 am – 5 pm. Basic Seed Production Training Day at Newton Dee Camphill Village near Aberdeen with Neil Munro. The training will include seed plant biology, reproduction biology, selection principles and techniques, seed plant husbandry and harvesting, cleaning and storage of seed; the path to commercial seed production. With […]
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It’s a challenging time for communities around the world, and this is no less true for seed groups, seed swaps and seed libraries. However, this is the Season of the Seed, the time of the year when people come together to trade tips, experiences, and seeds they have saved from the past growing season and […]
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Together with the Land Workers’ Alliance East Anglia and kindly hosted by the Greengrow Co-op, Gaia will be holding a Seed Production workshop on Saturday 22 July. The training will be focused on more advanced seed production skills so some seed saving experience will be useful although those with growing experience who are new to […]
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To celebrate Seed Week 2021, on Wednesday 20th January Gaia’s Seed Sovereignty Programme and partners hosted Our Seeds are Our Stories, an online storytelling event featuring Vivienne Sansour of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library and Kimberley Bell, founder of the UK Grain Lab. Learn more about the power and importance of seed in the UK and […]
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