Sheffield’s inaugural Tomato Fest took place this September, on one of the most gloriously sunny days we’ve had this year! (Of course, this is not coincidental. We booked the sunshine 😉) Tomato Fest was just one of the celebratory manifestations of the tomato trials that the Seed Sovereignty Programme have been running this year. A […]
Read ArticleThe results of our Growing to Seed project are in! As a programme, our aim is to build a robust seed system in the UK and Ireland, built around principles of agro-ecology, open pollination and resilience to changing conditions. However, as practitioners ‘in the field’ we also bear witness to the more intangible benefits of […]
Read ArticleThe northern England region of the Seed Sovereignty Programme has been contributing to a brilliant collaborative project that’s looking at growing, cooking and eating more pulse crops across the region. The group includes Northern Food and Farming (coordinated by LESS CIC) in Lancashire, the Organic Research Centre, Foodwise in Leeds and academics from both York […]
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