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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Coordinator for Northern England Catherine Howell guides us through how to create a captivating and portable display for your seeds… One of the challenges with promoting seed sovereignty at public events is displays – seeds are very small and tables often very big and flat! Creating an impact, and enticing people’s curiosity, can be challenging. […]
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High summer is the time reserved for site visits and farm walks, so our seed production trainees can see their learning in action! We were delighted to bring together our northern and southern England groups together, with members of the Wales Seed Hub, for a ‘West Midlands’ seed experience in early July. Warwick Crop Centre […]
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Sheffield’s inaugural Tomato Fest took place this September, on one of the most gloriously sunny days we’ve had this year! (Of course, this is not coincidental. We booked the sunshine 😉) Tomato Fest was just one of the celebratory manifestations of the tomato trials that the Seed Sovereignty Programme have been running this year. A […]
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The results of our Growing to Seed project are in! As a programme, our aim is to build a robust seed system in the UK and Ireland, built around principles of agro-ecology, open pollination and resilience to changing conditions. However, as practitioners ‘in the field’ we also bear witness to the more intangible benefits of […]
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Since visiting the Leakey home in May 2021, Northern England Coordinator Charlie has had the pleasure of speaking regularly with Tamsin about her father, Professor Colin Leakey and his beans. Tamsin and her mother welcomed Charlie to their home, where Professor Leakey lived his final years and where they have the remaining dwarf french beans […]
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