We are buzzing and excited to announce the performers for our festival on Saturday 11th October, at 5pm, at the Battersea Barge (SW8 5BP). This year our London Freedom Seed Bank Festival will be part of the wider Great Seed Festival . The London Freedom Seed Bank Festival will be kicking off with music from KMT freedom…Continue readingLine-up for the London Freedom Seed Bank Festival 2014
The Heritage Seed Library has been established for over 20 years, and from humble beginnings has grown in to a living library of over 800 varieties and millions of seeds. Their mission is to conserve rare varieties and to encourage growers across the UK to contribute to their practise of seed saving and exchange. A…Continue readingVisit to the Heritage Seed Library, 15 September 2014
Last year we held a festival to celebrate and recognise those who had saved seed during the year. This included a ceremony, where growers donated some of their saved seed to the London Freedom Seed Bank. The ceremony was accompanied by poetry, song, food, dance, and of course, the odd drink! We passed this donated…Continue readingLondon Freedom Seed Bank Festival – Saturday 11th October @ the Battersea Barge on the River Thames! 5pm ‘til late.
We have awakened to the realisation that we are losing something of great importance: As food growers and farmers we have lost our knowledge of how to save seed and our crop diversity … and we no longer hold the seed sacred! In Oct 2012 Vandana Shiva and the International Permaculture Network made a call…Continue readingWhat is the Freedom Seed Bank?