heritage seed

Only a few small seed companies in Canada offered heritage seed.

Protect, conserve and utilise Irish plant genetic resources including rare heritage seeds, grains, vegetables and fruit.

The charity maintains the Heritage Seed Library to preserve vegetable seeds from heritage cultivars and make them available to growers.

Seeds of Diversity originated in 1984 as the Heritage Seed Program of the Canadian Organic Growers organization.

The Food Bill 160-2 will seriously impede initiatives like community gardens, food co-ops, heritage seed banks, farmers markets, bake sales, and roadside fruit & vegetable stalls.

To help raise funds for the Project, Comuniterre sells organic heritage seeds and plants to individuals with their own gardens and a portion of the produce grown is sold to local markets.

Canada's Plant Breeders Rights legislation, that was introduced in 1989 and made law in 1990, and was a catalyst for efforts to develop community-based and community-owned collections of open-pollinated and heritage seed.

Guest presenter, Alys Fowler visits Garden Organic's Heritage Seed Library and Matthew Biggs sings out for his Plant of the Moment: Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn'.

The Henry Doubleday Research Association, now known as Garden Organic responded to this legislation by setting up the Heritage Seed Library to preserve seeds of as many of the older cultivars as possible.

Additionally, the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers(grandmotherscouncil.org)asked Flordemayo through the Path(followthegoldenpath.org)to build a Seed Temple on the land for the purpose of the protection of the heritage seeds for the future generations.

Some have developed as programs of botanical gardens, such as that of the VanDusen Botanical Garden, or from gardening associations and research institutes, such as the Heritage Seed Library of Garden Organic.

When Sharon Rempel, an agronomist working in British Columbia, had wanted to find period-appropriate heritage seed for the 1880s heritage gardens she was planting at the Keremeos Grist Mill museum, she had found the necessary seeds only in the United States.

As well as boasting the world's first public biodynamic garden, the site is also home to the Vegetable Kingdom, extensive conference facilities, an award-winning organic shop and cafe and the charity's renowned Heritage Seed Library, which conserves over 800 endangered varieties of rare vegetable seeds under threat from extinction.