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15 farmers faced the Kenyan government in court today - risking everything to defend their right to save and share seeds. 🌱✊⁣
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Why? A harmful law makes it a crime for farmers in Kenya to use traditional seeds, trapping them in a system run by seed corporations.⁣
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💥 Now’s the moment. The Kenyan government must fix this broken law.⁣
⁣ #SeedSovereignty #SaveOurSeeds

Court image credits: Ferdinand Omondi/Greenpeace Africa

15 farmers faced the Kenyan government in court today - risking everything to defend their right to save and share seeds.

Tærsker og sigter de sidste frø fra forrige sæson. Elsker at røre ved frø og rense fnillerfnalleret væk med vindens hjælp. Jeg føler mig forbundet med mine aner der har stået og gjort præcist det samme. Og føler mig enormt rig jo mere uafhængig jeg bliver af frøfirmaer, ikke primitiv eller fattig. Planter giver nye genetiske resourcer i overflod hvis vi bare lader dem blomstre, (bogstaveligt talt) og så høster frugterne (bogstaveligt talt).#Frø #Gartneri #FrieFrø #Frøsamler #SeedSaver #SeedSovereignty

Kondibøtter med radise, rødbede, amarant, gulerod og sigter med forskellige masker på bord

We had unseasonably warm weather here in Forest of Dean (FoD) last week and it's nice and mild today. It rained last night properly for the first time in a while. Things are waking up and there's enough in the garden to keep us ticking over. The greenhouses are packed with salad greens, many self-seeded from last year. So we have salad greens just about every day. Seedlings are coming along well too.
The bees are quiet today but they had a great year and done well over the winter WITHOUT any help from chemicals or sugar feed. I don't treat them or feed them.
Last year they swarmed!
The willow hedge we put in for a windbreak did it's job over the winter, protecting the greenhouses.
This year, I'm back at it (after donating a kidney last year which knocked my growing schedule last year).
Last year was so awful for so many growers with the cold summer and record breaking rain and flooding. Here's hoping this year is a bit drier! #growyourownfood #goodfoodcomesfromthegarden #permaculture #nodig #bees #willow #seedsovereignty #saveseeds #growagarden #goodfoodisnotrocketscience #radicalgardening #resistbigagriculture #soilhealth

One of the organizations I'm most happy and excited to be a member of - Going to Seed - are hiring! If you know someone that has some flair for coordination and admin as well as a love for diverse seed and community, look here: https://goingtoseed.org/pages/were-hiring #GoingToSeed #AdaptiveAgriculture #SeedSovereignty #NGO #FediJobs #GetFediHired

A hangout at my home yesterday with fellow gardeners talking about seed and swapping them too. Very excited to build a network of growers working with adaptive seed, genetic diversity and community-based landraces. Our own local chapter of something like Going to Seed https://goingtoseed.org #seed #AdaptiveAgriculture #LandraceGardening #farming #SeedSwap #SeedSovereignty #FoodSovereignty

Table littered with seed bags and hands putting seed in bags

#ExeterSeedBank's #SeedSwap will be on Sunday 2 March, 11 – 2pm, at the Positive Light Projects, Sidwell St, #Exeter, EX46RD https://www.exeterseedbank.co.uk/events/exeter-seed-swap-25

Booking links for individual talks in the following post.

#Permaculture #SeedSovereignty #Solarpunk #Devon #SeedSaving #OpenPollinatedSeed #SeedLibraries

A flyer for the seed swap with line drawings of seed saving and plants growing and photographs of the speakers. The text reads:

Exeter Seed Swap 2025! Now in its third year!

Sunday 2 March, 11 – 2pm, Positive Light Projects, Sidwell St, Exeter, EX46RD
FREE ENTRY (Suggested donation: £2) bring cash. Children welcome.
Featuring: Hands-on activities, demos, yummy café treats, plants to buy, stalls and more!
Talks Programme: Talks held at Sidwell St Bakehouse, Sidwell St, EX46RD. General admission: £5 + booking fee. Limited free tickets for under 25s with valid ID.

This programme went out on Christmas Day on the radio in Ireland, a fine tribute to a great woman, proud of my contribution #seedsaving #foodsovereignty #seedsovereignty #irishseedsaversassociation #anitahayes #openpollinated #ClimateDiary
https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/newstalk-documentary/groundbreaker-anita-hayes?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=web

Agroecologist Claire Nasike says farmers need to control and breed their own #seeds. “Lifting the (#GMO) ban will expose small-scale farmers to exorbitant seed prices and tie them down in the cycle of debt and intellectual property laws by giant multinationals.” #seedsovereignty

From one of Europe's most diverse seed catalogues, Deaflora: "Petition - Raise the pitchforks - for diversity. The EU is planning a new seed law that threatens varieties of diversity. Maintaining and passing them on is made difficult or impossible." https://deaflora.de/Shop/Saatgutvielfalt-in-Gefahr-/ #seedsovereignty #EU

New EU seed laws demanding expensive phytosanitary certificates are forcing small seed farmers and distributors to either close down, continue illegally until the authorities fine them or insert these absurd disclaimers on their webshops. #seedsovereignty #EU

Setting up for the #Exeter #Seedbank #SeedSwap today at #PostiveLights on #SidwellStreet, where I'll be teaching #CoilBasketry. Come along! Opens 10:30 to 14:30.

#SeedSovereignty #OpenPollinatedSeed #Permaculture

A selection of seed packets in trays on a desk, with glass jars of seed next to a sign saying "Take a pinch or two"

A cafe stall with a selection of handmade cakes and flapjack

A stall by Incredible Vegetables selling various perennial plants like perpetual kale and sweet violets

A tray of tomato seeds with a display about tomatoes behind it

I'll be helping out and demonstrating #CoilBasketry from recycled and foraged materials at #Exeter #SeedSwap at #PositiveLights on Sunday the 18th, come along!

#SeedSovereignty #OpenPollinatedSeed #CommunityGarden
#Permaculture
#Solarpunk
#Skillshare
#HeritageCrafts
#AncestralSkills
#Devon

Text says: "Sunday 18 February 2024, 10.30am - 2.30pm Positive Light Projects, Sidwell Street
Get inspired for the growing season! Have you got seeds to spare that are within their use-by date? Why not swap your seeds for something else? No seeds to swap? Come along & pick up some seeds to start your growing journey.
FREE ENTRY & FREE SEEDS
Homemade cafe, plants and activities and then the logos of the supporting organisations - Exeter Seed Bank, Exeter Culture, Creative Arc and the Positive Lights Project"

The text is superimposed of a picture of a hand flicking through a box of seed packets, surrounded by seeds in glass jars

« Les OGM, anciens ou nouveaux, amplifient la dépendance aux pesticides et aggravent les problèmes liés à la santé des consommateurs » nous dit l'eurodéputé @BenoitBiteau

@NoPatentsOnSeed
#newGMOs
#NGTs
#Agroecology
#foodsovereignty
#SeedSovereignty

If something is natural it cannot be patented, and if it can be patented it is not natural - Claire Robinson @GMWatch

@NoPatentsOnSeed
#newGMOs
#NGTs
#Agroecology
#foodsovereignty
#SeedSovereignty

La régulation #OGM s'appuie sur le principe de précaution, lui-même inscrit dans les Traités. La @EU_Commission n'a pas été mandatée pour mettre ce principe en cause et elle doit s'y conformer.

@NoPatentsOnSeed
#newGMOs
#NGTs
#Agroecology
#foodsovereignty
#SeedSovereignty

Real Seeds in the UK do excellent organic heirloom seeds but I also appreciate their honesty on the political situation we've got ourselves into.

https://www.realseeds.co.uk/

#HeirloomSeed #HeirloomVegetables #OrganicSeed #OpenPollinatedSeed #SeedSovereignty #SeedSaving #Brexit #UKPolitics #TakingBackControl

A comment on a Facebook post asking "Are you still unable to post to France" and a response from Real Seeds: "I am so sorry but since Brexit we are no longer in the same country as you and without a trade agreement, moving any quantity of seed either direction across an international border now requires physical inspection of each container (each packet in this case) by an official seed inspector, testing for disease in a lab, and issuing a Phytosanitary Inspection Certificate. Then declaring the shipment with the exporting and importing customs agencies of each country. Net cost would be about £100 per packet.
This did not need to be be the case - it could have carried on as before - but there was a political decision by our government to not have a trade agreement in order to prove that we really do control our own borders now."

I'll be giving a demonstration of #NetMaking, #LactoFermentation and #SeedSprouting at #Exeter #SeedSwap on the 26th of February at #MakeTank, come along!

#SeedSovereignty #OpenPollinatedSeed #CommunityGarden #Permaculture #Solarpunk #Skillshare #LivingKitchen #Devon

A flier of a person in a top covered with invertebrate designs, holding a hand lense to examine a box of dried flower heads.

Text reads:

"Exeter Seed Swap 2023.
Inspiring talks, demonstrations, activities and stalls.
Sunday 26 February at Maketank.
11:00 to 15:30. Free Entry.

Get inspired for the growing season!
Have you got seeds to spare that are withing their use-by date?
Why not swap your seeds for something else?
No seeds to swap? Come along and pick up some seeds to start your growing journey!

Seeds are free. Donations are welcome.

For further details www.exeterseedbank.co.uk

EarthCare Permaculture Foundation in Ghana provide skills training to children and youth regarding regenerative living practices #Ghana #Africa #Agroecology #Education #Permaculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSovereignty #SeedSovereignty #Agroecologia

https://agroecologymap.org/locations/earthcare-permaculture-ghana

Dryland Permaculture is the application of Permaculture design in climatic regions of the world where mean annual evaporation exceeds mean annual rainfall. #Australia #Agroecology #Permaculture #Education #FoodSovereignty #SeedSovereignty #Agroecologia