Brussels Kitchen GardenMay 21

Heirloom Seeds 🌱

What are heirloom varieties? It's an old cultivar that is “still maintained by gardeners and farmers particularly in isolated or ethnic communities.”...

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Heirloom Seeds - Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden

Get in trouble with the law? If certain agribusiness interests get their way it will no longer be legal to save seeds and share them with other people.

Diary of a Brussels Kitchen Garden
ArneMay 21
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@BRKitchenGarden Growing heirloom varieties is becoming ever more important. They can provide increased resilience, sustainability and biodiversity.

The Heritage Seed Library (UK) is not legally allowed to sell seed. It is too expensive and onerous to register seed for commercial sale.

Instead, people can opt to receive a small number of seeds every year as part of the benefit of membership. #Gardening #HeirloomSeeds #SeedSaving #LandraceGardening

https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/what-we-do/hsl/how-the-seed-library-works

Garden Organic | How the Heritage Seed Library works

The seed library holds over 800 varieties of seeds, including rare landrace varieties adapted to specific growing conditions, heirloom varieties saved…

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May 21 at 7:35amWeb
Show threadsunflowerinrainMay 21
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This is marvellous.