Last month, one of the newest members of the LFSB steering group, Sam Rudy, visited Aleka Haziak, a seed production company in the Basque Country that focuses on preserving local varieties of open pollinated, true to type seeds. He met with Kelo, the founder of Aleka, at his own farm in Beizama, where he showed…Continue readingLFSB visits Aleka Haziak in the Basque Country
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Grower and steering group member Richard Galpin explains why the London Freedom Seed Bank started a data project, and how it has become so important for the work of the seed bank. When did it start? The London Freedom Seed Base (LFSBase for short) started in early 2020 as an attempt to log the seeds we currently have in…Continue readingIntroducing our new collaborative data project
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Seeds for Lebanon
Dear supporters, this is an urgent request for help! If you have a surplus of spare seeds and would like to donate them to a worthy cause then please read below. Our friends in Lebanon are looking for donations of healthy, organic seeds (especially beans, peas and salad crops). After the tragic explosion in Beirut…Continue readingSeeds for Lebanon
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Berlin’s pedal-powered seed bank
Berlin’s Saatgutrad, or Seed Bike, is a portable seed bank, travelling from one allotment to the next to have a chat, share seeds and pass on seed saving knowledge. Helene Schulze went to visit to find out how they work and share some of our experiences from the LFSB. As urban seed savers, we are…Continue readingBerlin’s pedal-powered seed bank