Commercial Growers 24 April 2025

Seed Week 2025: What does seed sovereignty taste like? 

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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Commercial Growers 23 April 2021

Save the Date for our First Seed Gathering!

Join us online on the 23rd and 24th of October, 2021 for discussions, workshops and talks celebrating the diversity, opportunities and deep cultural connections of our seeds.     The Gathering will be held virtually this year to keep all participants safe and minimise any disruption to programming due to changing pandemic restrictions. However, we […]

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Commercial Growers 26 April 2022

‘So You Want to Start a Seed Coop?’ Week 4 – Packets, Distribution, and Marketing

This week Wales Coordinator Katie Hastings walks us through the vital steps that come after all that lovely seed is grown, harvested, and processed. While actually selling the seed might seem like the easy bit, there’s a lot more than meets the eye…   Our members are responsible for physically packing their seeds into packets […]

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Commercial Growers 25 April 2025

Seed Week 2025: Do seeds produce healthier minds?

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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Commercial Growers 14 July 2021

A Seed-Saving Year at Leen Organics – June

In this latest installment Jason marvels at the magnificence of the mid-summer sun, reflects on the unruliness of radishes and prepares to scale the heady heights of the harvest yet to come.   It’s June 9th and the lessons are coming thick and fast this month.  The first big one is that despite tying and […]

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Families growing
Commercial Growers 27 February 2024

Northern Seed Stories

For Seed Week, our Northern England Coordinator, Catherine Howell, has gathered stories from some of the wonderful people she is lucky enough to share the region with. Scroll away, or skip to a chapter that catches your eye: Chapter 1 – Growing a seed library, Toxteth Chapter 2 – Potato Day, Norton Chapter 3 – […]

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Seed Sovereignty
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