Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share
By Christopher D. Cook, Shareable
Seeds are the forgotten heroes of food—and of life itself.
Tag: seed saving
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?
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.
The Largest Seed Exchange in the World Inspires Change
By Bezdomny, Shareable
Ethical consumers in the US are increasingly concerned with the seeds used in the production of their food
An Insurance Policy for Climate Change? How Seed Banks Are Protecting the Future of Food
By Richard Schiffman, YES! magazine
More than 75 percent of the fruit and vegetable varieties that humans once consumed have already gone the way of the wooly mammoth...
Seeds of Resilience, Seeds of Sovereignty
By Debal Deb, Brian Emerson, Local Bites
In this episode, Local Bites interviews ecologist and renowned seed conservationist, Dr. Debal Deb on the value of traditional seeds in an unstable world.
Indigenous Seed Savers Fight Climate Change with Biodiversity
By Erin Sagen, YES! magazine
As farmer Mamani stated, “It’s time traditional knowledge and science work together.”
Saving Seeds and Saving Vegetables: A Multibook Review
By Mary Wildfire, Resilience.org
Say you’re an experienced gardener, adept at sowing and transplanting, weeding and harvesting. You’re ready for the next step in self-sufficiency...
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.
Open Pollinated: Seeds of Value
By Chuck Burr, Restoration Seeds
An open pollinated (OP) seed is a seed of value as it can grow into a plant true to the plant it was saved from.
Food & agriculture – April 30
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
• The Trouble with Biofuels: Costs and Consequences of Expanding Biofuel Use in the United Kingdom •Dance of the Honey Bee •The benefits of alternative farming methods •A Brief History of Our Deadly Addiction to Nitrogen Fertilizer •Connecting the Dots: the Big Permaculture Picture •YFF: Using the Sun to Empower Women and Help Family Farmers •International Day of Peasant struggles •Why Saving Seed and Growing Organic Food is a Powerful Weapon Against Corporate Tyranny •Why farmers still struggle when food prices rise