A new plant breeding forum has started in Europe. This is intended to be a European version of the Homegrown Goodness forum in the US. Are you interested in plant breeding and seed saving from a European perspective? Stop by, register and introduce yourself!
Catofstripes Seed Swap — Seed Network
If you live in the UK or EU, and are keen to do a seed swap, catofstripes has a seed swap page on her blog. It’s still under construction, but some things are already listed.
I have yet to update the links for this year, and many are out of date, but some other trade lists can be found on my seed network page. If you would like to be added, or maybe even removed from this list, just send me an email. Contact information is under the contact tab on the from page of this blog. I’m not sure what the future of this page will be, but for 2013/2014 I’m happy to keep it going. Is anyone out there interested in taking it over, and moving it to your own website or combining it with a similar initiative?
Alan Kapuler Video Series
Plant breeder and seed saver Alan Kapuler did a fantastic series of videos for the Cooking Up A Story website. I’ve posted some of the earlier ones before, but here’s the complete series of 5.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Tom Wagner Kansas Alumni Magazine Article
Tom just sent me this great article about his work!
Originally published in Kansas Alumni magazine, issue No. 4, 2013. Reprinted with permission.
Also have a look at two websites selling his seeds. New World Crops and Tom Wagner Seeds.
EU Seed Law: Open Letter EU Seed Organizations
To coincide with a EU Commission conference in Brussels, with the EU Parliament and EU Council, to explain the package “smarter rules for safer food”, most of Europe’s largest seed organizations have come together to sign a joint statement opposing many important aspects of this legislation package, as it relates to Plant Reproductive Material.
Signatories of this JOINT STATEMENT:
- Aegilops Network for Biodiversity and Ecology In Agriculture, Greece (www.aegilops.gr)
- Agrolink, Bulgaria (www.agrolink.org)
- Arche Noah, Seed Savers Assocation in Central Europe (www.arche-noah.at)
- A Seed Europe (Action for Solidarity, Environment, Equality and Diversity) (www.aseed.net)
- Bifurcated Carrots, The Netherlands (bifurcatedcarrots.eu)
- Campaign for Seed Sovereignty, Europe (www.seed-sovereignty.org | www.saatgutkampagne.org)
- Danish Seed Savers (www.froesamlerne.dk)
- Dachverband Kulturpflanzen- und Nutztiervielfalt Deutschland (www.kulturpflanzen-nutztiervielfalt.org)
- Eco Ruralis, Romania (www.ecoruralis.ro)
- Föreningen Sesam, the Swedish society for seed propagation and protection of cultural plants (www.foreningensesam.se)
- GAIA – Grupo de Acção e Intervenção Ambiental, Portugal (www.gaia.org.pt)
- Garden Organic – the national charity for organic growing, United Kingdom (www.gardenorganic.org.uk)
- Global 2000, Austria (http://www.global2000.at)
- GNAG – Green network of activist groups, Croatia (www.zmag.hr)
- Irish Seed Savers Association (www.irishseedsavers.ie)
- Latvijas Zemes draugi (Friends of the Earth Latvia) – (www.zemesdraugi.lv/)
- MPI, Portugal (www.mpica.info)
- ÖBV – Via Campesina Austria (www.viacampesina.at)
- Peliti, Greece (www.peliti.gr)
- Quercus, Portugal (www.quercus.pt)
- Varuhi semen – Društvo za ohranjanje biotske pestrosti kulturnih rastlin, Slovenia (www.semenska.org)
