Seed Savers Agricultural Biodiversity

Seed Savers

Links to principal non-profit, public interest seed saver organisations throughout the world which conserve and distribute heritage and heirloom varieties of seeds, often through volunteer seed guardians

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• - Information about collecting and preserving cultivated food plants, endemic or acclimatised to Massachusetts and New England. Conservation and regional exchange by seed savers (CRESS), native seeds and other projects described.
  
• - Activist network engaged in protecting agricultural biodiversity and creating local food security
  
• - Workshops, information and links about heirloom and other open-pollinated vegetables that grow well in the southeastern U.S.
  
• - Site records work of NS/S to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. Project reports, seeds
  
• - Canada's Heritage Seed Program - a non-profit group of gardeners who save seeds from rare and unusual garden plants for the purpose of preserving varieties in a living gene bank
  
• - Articles, events and historical seed catalogues for New Jersey gardeners, farmers and avocational historians. GSHSS works with living history farms, sites and museums providing seeds appropriate for the era they portray.
  
• - Promotes the use and production of organic seeds worldwide. Describes programs and offers manual on seed production in the Americas. [English/Spanish/Portuguese]
  
• - Site dedicated to preserving Australia's horticultural and garden heritage and advocating against corporate forces that are eroding this diversity. Seed lists, inventory, issues and membership details.
  
• - Information about events, seed saving workshops and other activities of British Columbia-based organisation that organises "Seedy Saturdays" for seed exchanges.
  
• - This page links to 12 of the most effective seed saving efforts around the world. It is part of World Hunger Year's program to identify organizations which create self-reliance, economic justice and food security.
  
• - Promoting and organising the preservation, free distribution and exchange of open-pollinated seeds.
  
• - A resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. Details of sites in SW England.
  
• - A voluntary organisation dedicated to the location and preservation of traditional varieties of grains, fruits and vegetables. Site has current seed lists and project information.
  
• - Aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties that have been dropped from popular seed catalogues as well as some landraces and a large number of family heirloom varieties that have never been in a catalogue.
  
• - Suite101's articles on seeds including seed saving, exchange and related issues. Also covers other horticultural activities.
  
• - Free online seed saving instructions. ISSI is dedicated to seed-saving education and self-reliance for peoples world-wide. Also offers O.P. seeds.
  
• - SSE is saving heirloom garden seeds from extinction that gardeners and farmers brought to North America when their families immigrated, as well as traditional varieties grown by Native Americans, Mennonites and Amish. Information, links and catalogues on
  
• - Website describes activities at University of Georgia that conserve the legacy of seeds and knowledge unique to the ethnic groups (inc. Vietnamese) and bioregions of the southern United States. Seed swap information posted.
  
• - Comprehensive directory of web resources on seed saving - includes a section on books on seedsaving
  
• - Introduction to California-based FCGP. Background and guide to techniques that will enable gardeners and farmers to participate in plant conservation and develop varieties of plants appropriate for regional conditions.
  
• - Resources for Washington State seed savers and for international distribution of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds. Newsletters, seed savers forum and information on events.
  
• - Established to facilitate and share information and seeds between regional seed saving groups which maintain and strengthen the agricultural biodiversity of open pollinated, non-genetically engineered plant varieties in New Zealand
  
  

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