The team of the Seed Sovereignty Programme UK and Ireland are supporting this No Patents on Seeds campaign and are encouraging all our seed saving networks, friends and supporters to sign this petition. Even though the UK is no longer in the European Union it is still under the jurisdiction of the European Patent office. […]
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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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Kate Harrison has been Chair of Seedy Sunday since 2019, and on the organising committee since 2017. She has had an organic allotment in Brighton for nearly 20 years, and enjoys gardening as part of a community, and experimenting with growing unusual fruit and vegetables. Seedy Sunday Brighton and Hove is the largest and oldest […]
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In this week’s instalment of ‘So You Want to Start a Seed Coop?’, our Wales Coordinator Katie Hastings talks us through the ins and outs of the Record-keeping and Legalities behind selling seed collectively… Selling seed can seem like a minefield of legislation, but this is not impenetrable. The first thing we did at […]
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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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This February marked the retirement of our much-loved Seed Sovereignty coordinator for Scotland, Maria Scholten. Having been part of the Seed Sovereignty Programme since the beginning and having dedicated much of her working life to seed, we took to the chance to talk to Maria about her career, the crofting traditions of Uist and the legacy […]
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