Worldwide: Seed Exchanges - Swapping Seeds with Like Minded Gardeners
About.com collection of sites on seed saving. Links to several key seed swap resources.
Worldwide: Seedsaving and Seedsavers' Resources
Comprehensive directory of web resources on seed saving - includes a section on books on seedsaving
USA: Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
Workshops, information and links about heirloom and other open-pollinated vegetables that grow well in the southeastern U.S.
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.
Canada: Comox Valley Growers & Seed Savers
Information about events, seed saving workshops and other activities of British Columbia-based organisation that organises "Seedy Saturdays" for seed exchanges.
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.
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.
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.
Ireland: Irish Seed Savers Association
A voluntary organisation dedicated to the location and preservation of traditional varieties of grains, fruits and vegetables. Site has current seed lists and project information.
France: Kokopelli Seed Foundation
Protects planetary biodiversity and production of organic seeds. Mission, history, and related links.
USA: Native Seed Network
Site covers much of the wild and domesticated flora of utility to humans, and their ecosystems,in the USA. Many links to sister sites of importance. Seed excange facilitated through site.
Mexico / USA: Native Seeds/SEARCH
Site records work of NS/S to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. Project reports, seeds for sharing and links included.
UK: Plants for a Future
A resource centre for rare and unusual plants, particularly those which have edible, medicinal or other uses. Details of sites in SW England.
UK: Primal Seeds Network
Activist network engaged in protecting agricultural biodiversity and creating local food security
USA: The Victory Horticultural Portal
an Oregon-based not-for-profit site dedicated to preserving rare seed varieties along with our collective horticultural heritage. Features include historical information and a forum for fostering community.
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
Worldwide: International Seed Saving Institute
Free online seed saving instructions. ISSI is dedicated to seed-saving education and self-reliance for peoples world-wide. Also offers O.P. seeds.
Australia: The Seed Savers Network
Promoting and organising the preservation, free distribution and exchange of open-pollinated seeds.
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
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.
Worldwide: Miscellaneous Seeds Articles
Suite101's articles on seeds including seed saving, exchange and related issues. Also covers other horticultural activities.
USA: Southern Heirloom Seeds and Memories
Website describes activities at University of Georgia that conserve the legacy of seeds and knowledge unique to the ethnic groups (inc. Vietnamese) and bioregions of the southern United States. Seed swap information posted.
WorldWide: World Hunger Year - Spotlight on Seed Saving
This page links to 12 of the most effective seed saving efforts around the world. It is part of World Hunger Year's program to identify organizations which create self-reliance, economic justice and food security.
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