The 2025 Seed Gathering is taking place on 17 – 19 October at the Centre for Alternative Technology. Full festival conference details. Buy tickets here.
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Yesterday, we saw Seed Week 2025 culminate in an incredible finale as, with monumental thanks to all who shared and donated, we reached our goal of raising £20,000 to increase seed diversity for climate resilience. From strengthening community connections to shortening supply chains, teaching us the importance of diversity to imparting a mindset of abundance, […]
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For the final day of #SeedWeek our Future Resilience Coordinator, Holly, explains the Crowd Breeding project creating new crops that are genetically diverse. Several varieties are mixed then allowed to promiscuously pollinate, and a crowd of humans join the party too, selecting for favoured characteristics. Diversity equals resilience in any system: by embracing the dynamism in difference, this collective of people and plants is already finding stable ground amidst an erratic climate.
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🌾Common Grains – network meet-up 🌾 Taking place on Monday 16 June – the day after our Scottish Seed Fest which brings together members of the Scottish Seed Sovereignty Network – Common Grains are holding their first Network meet up of the year. This day-long event offers members of the Common Grains network a chance to […]
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Our Ireland Coordinator, Richie, shares the stories of the seeds lost to a corporate drive for imported goods, now being unearthed again by tenacious Irish growers. The hardy heritage seeds being saved from extinction have their own steadfast spirit. These varieties are thriving through the island’s increasingly rough weather, growing the potential to keep food on tables despite climate breakdown.
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The piece below is a short extract from an original article written by Seed Sovereignty Programme Lead, Sinéad Fortune, with Amber Hayward, published in Terralingua’s Langscape Magazine ➡️ Click here to read the article for free or support Terralingua by purchasing the full issue. Learning from seeds, the kernels of life, we can reimagine an […]
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Northern England Coordinator, Catherine, asks whether watching seeds adapt and strengthen over time can teach us the same is possible for ourselves.
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With any kind of change, it’s easy to think about what we might lose. But how about the gains that could come from a climate-resilient food system? Katie, our Wales Coordinator, has teamed up with chef Sam Black to unlock the rich world of flavour that beckons from a future of seed diversity.
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For the second day of #SeedWeek, we’re hearing from Scotland Coordinators, Louise and Tom, on the emergent communities sprouting from seed work across Scotland. By working with seed, this tight network has forged the ability to look forward, even in trying times. They have restored a relationship with local land. And they have laid the foundations for a population as resilient to climactic changes as the seeds they sow each season.
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Our Southern England Coordinator, Randa, introduces #SeedWeek 2025: a chance to sow change by supporting seed diversity for climate resilience. Every seed has a story of survival. The vegetables, grains, and pulses we eat every day exist thanks to the generations of farmers who have saved these seeds, season after season, through sunshine and through […]
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