After the well-attended and well-received Basic Seed Production Training Day in Newton Dee this summer (see report on this website) and a seed saving workshop on the Black Isle in September, a third training was given, aiming at comercial growers and seed savers in the Central Belt last Saturday, the 3rd of November at the […]
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As the October sun sets on his final installment Jason reflects on the lessons and learning of the last year, his resolutions for the next and the seed savers gift of second chances.. The first week in October started dank and humid (very humid) and it rained a lot. There was an expectation that this […]
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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 […]
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https://www.gaiafoundation.org/strategic-convening-on-resilient-seed-systems/ In 2016 a report was released entitled ‘The Future of Food: Seeds of Resilience. A Compendium of Perspectives on Agricultural biodiversity from around the world’. This report was commissioned by The Global Alliance for the Future of Food, and their partners, to ‘stimulate information-sharing, learning and collective action’ concerning the ‘preservation, maintenance and enhancement […]
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All the sessions from our recent Seed Gathering on the 23rd and 24th of October are now available! Whether you want to re-watch sessions you missed on the weekend, or you were unable to join us for the event, all the recordings are available to watch now – access them here: Seed Gathering 2021
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Future Resilience Seed Coordinator Holly kicks off Seed Week with insights into how we can revive the incredible scale of diversity Nature can offer us, carrying the array of options needed for a truly resilient food system.
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