Seed Groups

Find Seed Groups Near Me International Seed Initiatives How to Start a Seed Co-op A guide for setting up a seed-selling cooperative written by Katie Hastings, Seed Sovereignty Coordinator for Wales. Published 30th September 2022.

Regional Networks

Our team of regional coordinators, each with their hands in local soil, able to adapt to the specific needs of their ecological and cultural homes, are accompanying communities, growers, and seed savers as they reclaim their rights to a climate-resilient food system. Alongside an incredible network of seed guardians, spanning seed banks, libraries, cooperatives, companies, […]

Commerical Growing

Contracting for Seed Toolkit Seed Databases Training Irrigation – A Guide for New Growers A publication by irrigation expert Pete Dollimore focusing on irrigation installations and techniques for a market garden scale. Produced as an outcome of the partnership between the Seed Sovereignty Programme, the OGA and CSA Network UK, funded by Farming the Future.

Trainings

Introduction to Seed Saving Our introductory course for commercial growers and community groups working with veg or seed. The course runs over two webinars; attendance at both sessions is mandatory to complete the course. Completing this intro course gives growers access to our Year-Long Seed Production Training course. The next Introduction to Seed Saving courses will run in 2026. Dates will […]

Seed Processing

Croft Scale Equipment Used to Process Grain Crofter and engineer Adam Veitch has researched historical croft-scale or small-scale equipment once used to process grain. Here, he presents his findings to date. Presented at our Uncommon Grains event on 6 February 2021. Tiny Oat Collider – Oat Dehuller Project In 2021, the Seed Sovereignty Programme launched […]

Seed Production

Introduction to Seed Saving Seed Saving Guides Seed Production Webinars Crop Guides Seed Processing

Free Resources

Find resources on: Seed Production Commercial Growing Where to buy open-pollinated agroecological seed Seed Policy and Legislation Seed Groups Zines

From Seeds We Rise: Stories, reflections, and inspiration from the Seed Gathering

Nestled in the Dyfi Valley, surrounded by every shade of autumn’s amber cloak, hundreds of growers, guardians, savers, breeders, and lovers of seed flocked to the Centre for Alternative Technology for the first-ever in-person Seed Gathering. We are becoming a more powerful voice for change. We are not alone. There is huge untapped potential, both […]

Exploring new, radical ways to grow a diverse and resilient food system that is productive, joyful, and farmer-led. Modern plant breeding, geared towards high-input, industrial-scale corporate food production, has, in its efforts to increase crop yields and stamp out pests, severed seeds from their innate patterns of adaptation and renewal. Our crops have lost their […]

Strengthening agroecology’s future through participatory variety selection. Most crop trials and breeding programmes in the UK and Ireland are being run by and for petrochemical farming. The Seed Sovereignty Programme is proud to be running Participatory Variety Selection (PVS) trials with and for agroecological farmers. These PVS trials are designed to help growers cultivate the […]