How to Start a Seed Sharing Campaign in Your Town

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

Want to start a campaign to save seed sharing in your town? We’ve put together the following guide to help you do just that.

SOS: Save our Seeds

By Sophie Gore Browne, Sustainable Food Trust

Have you ever saved seeds, joined a local seed swap or contributed to a seed library?

SELC and Shareable Kickoff Campaign to Save Seed Sharing in the U.S.

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

The campaign is designed to educate people about seed sharing issues, support seed sharing communities, and reform overzealous seed laws.

The Story of Hudson Valley Seed Library

By Nasimeh Bahrayni-Easton, Shareable

In 2004, Ken Greene was working as a librarian in Gardiner, New York when he decided to go beyond the bounds of his own personal garden and take his passion for seed saving into a more public, community-based arena.

Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

Seed activists can put a mark in the win column. Recently, the city council in Duluth, Minnesota passed a resolution supporting seed saving and sharing in the city (see video below of the council meeting).

SELC Celebrates Victories and Launches Seed Library Campaign

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

Now in its fifth year, SELC is a driving force for the new economy, doing pioneering work around worker cooperatives, home-based food businesses, alternative currencies, legal guides for sharing, legal apprenticeships, accessible legal cafes, renewable energy, the commons, seed libraries and more.

US Seed Libraries Mobilize to Protect Their Right to Share

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

The goal now is to direct that energy toward protecting seed libraries, which are a cornerstone in efforts to foster the genetic diversity of food and strengthen food security.

Just How “Legal” Are Seed Libraries?

By Janelle Orsi, Neil Thapar, Center for a New American Dream

After the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture cracked down on a community seed library, hundreds of seed libraries in the U.S. are suddenly wondering if they are breaking the law.

Pennsylvania Seed Library seen as encouraging “agriterrorism”

By Kelly McCartney, Sarah Baird, Shareable

County Commissioner Barbara Cross said about the potential risk, “Agri-terrorism is a very, very real scenario,” she said. “Protecting and maintaining the food sources of America is an overwhelming challenge...so you’ve got agri-tourism on one side and agri-terrorism on the other.”

Community Seed Banks

By Bernard Mc Donagh, Resilience.org

Seed saving is very easy to do and most enjoyable. It also helps to build resilience back into the individual and the community.

Seeds of the People: Growing Local Knowledge

By Victoria Leigh Thurmond, Shareable

It's challenging enough to explain to a five year old child who has spent his or her whole life in the city that a carrot is a taproot and grows in the dirt.