Trainings

Jump to: 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. […]

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

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Free Resources

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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 […]

Crowd Breeding Network

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 […]

Taking action against seed privatisation, genetic modification, chemical fertilisers, and the preference for uniformity over taste and nutrition.  National and international legislation plays a huge role in what growers, on the one hand, and large agribusinesses, on the other, can and can’t do with seed. We support our network through training, resources and workshops to […]

Use your power as a commercial grower, community group member, allotmenteer, or windowsill warrior to stand up for seed.  We’ve compiled a list of producers who are all committed to cultivating, selecting and saving the best possible quality organic seed. By supporting small-scale producers based here in the UK and Ireland, you cast a vote […]

Growing, sharing, and sowing agroecologically grown, open-pollinated seed for food justice, community connection, and biodiversity. Welcome to the world of seed saving.  Our current commodity seed system is centred around profit and ownership. Hybrid (or F1) seeds, owned by large agribusinesses, are those most commonly available from garden centres and online retailers. These seeds are bred […]