London Seed Harvest 2021. By Richard Galpin. An Uncertain Year. As temperatures drop and autumn arrives, our network of London seed savers spend less time sowing, growing and harvesting crops, and more time drying, cleaning and storing seed. The 2021 seed harvest looks to be a very uncertain one. We’ve had reports from growers across…Continue readingLondon Seed Harvest 2021
Building a regional seed network in the Southeast. Helene Schulze is one of the co-directors of the London Freedom Seed Bank. Since July 2020, she is also Regional Coordinator for the Southeast England for the Seed Sovereignty Programme of the UK and Ireland. Here she unpacks what her hopes are for the new role, how…Continue readingBuilding a regional seed network in the Southeast
At the London Freedom Seed Bank we stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that have swept the globe in the wake of the state-sanctioned killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many others. These are crucial times of protest and outrage, of education and learning about the systemic…Continue readingRacial Justice in Food and Seed Sovereignty Organising
By all accounts, it is primed to be a huge year for home-grown veg in the UK. Seed producers and seed banks alike have been overwhelmed with demand as many Brits set up shop on balconies and gardens, facing up to the reality of a long summer of likely lockdown. The LFSB also experienced a…Continue readingResponding to these tricky times
