The 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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East Anglia already has a strong emerging movement of sustainable community food including several horticultural projects, community supported agriculture (CSA) and community gardens providing local produce and opportunities for people to get involved with where their food comes from. Representatives from several of these inspiring projects came together at the Greengrow Co-op on 22 July […]
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Maria Scholten, Regional Coordinator for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, has been working hard with crofters this year to bring more of the heritage grains back into rotation. Hear about her work and how to get involved: We began our grain work early this year with a visit to Uist to learn about grain […]
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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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One of the main (and most fun!) objectives of the Seed Sovereignty Programme is to support the development of localised seed hubs – connecting clusters of enthusiasts to make seed magic happen! Off the back of 2024’s ‘Growing to Seed’ practical seed training and mental wellbeing project, the progression of previous year-long trainees, and the […]
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At the dawn of agriculture, 11,000 years ago, the practice of seed saving was inseparable from the act of farming. If you didn’t save seed, you wouldn’t have any crops to grow next year – it was as simple as that. It wasn’t until very recently that farmers stopped producing seed in the UK, leaving […]
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