Seeds of Change
Gary Nabhan has taken the fight to the corporate seed merchants through the local food movement and seed saving community.
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Meet India’s Female “Seed Guardians” Pioneering Organic Farming
Bring up the topic of seeds and Nabita Goud sits up a little straighter and begins to talk animatedly.
In Photos: The Seed-Saving Farmers Who Pass Down Land to Their Daughters
In Meghalaya, indigenous women are keepers of the seeds that form the foundation of their food sovereignty, a conscious choice by small food producers to define their unique food systems and culture.
The Seeds of Revolution
Nadimidoddi Vinodamma, ably helped by her husband Vinayappa, is modest about her achievement. Surrounded by a bewildering array of jowar, bajra, ragi, red gram, green gram, til, sama, korra, and other food crops in the midst of their land, Vinodamma talks quietly about how she is merely using knowledge handed down over generations, trusting the land and traditional seeds.
Seed Guardians
The inclusive, horizontal and autonomous network Red Semillas Libres Chile aims to preserve the cultural heritage that is our seed stock and to combat genetically-modified seeds and monocultures.
Saving Seeds
The miracle of a seed is that this tiny little thing holds within itself the potential to recreate a whole individual plant or tree.
How to Host a Seed Swap
Seed swaps are great ways to learn about local seeds, build community around seed sharing, and show support for the Save Seed Sharing movement.
Corporations vs. Communities: a Tale of Two Meetings
In 2015 it shouldn’t be a radical notion to want to move beyond colonialism and make sure farmers can keep control of the resources needed to grow food to feed their communities.
Seed Libraries Fight for the Right to Share
Seeds are the forgotten heroes of food—and of life itself.
SOS: Save our Seeds
Have you ever saved seeds, joined a local seed swap or contributed to a seed library?
The Story of Hudson Valley Seed Library
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
Ethical consumers in the US are increasingly concerned with the seeds used in the production of their food