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UK: HDRA Heritage Seed Library 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. UK: Primal Seeds Network Activist network engaged in protecting agricultural biodiversity and creating local food security USA: Seed Savers Exchange 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. Australia: The Seed Savers Network Promoting and organising the preservation, free distribution and exchange of open-pollinated seeds. Canada: Seeds of Diversity 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 USA: Eastern Native Seed Conservancy 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. USA: Garden State Heirloom Seed Society 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. Aotearoa New Zealand: Seed Savers (SSANZ) 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 Worldwide: Seedsaving and Seedsavers' Resources Comprehensive directory of web resources on seed saving - includes a section on books on seedsaving USA: Abundant Life Seed Foundation Resources for Washington State seed savers and for international distribution of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds. Newsletters, seed savers forum and information on events. |
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