April 2008

Hosting Next Seed Savers Conference: After the success of our recent twentieth conference in Gulgong near Mudgee we are looking for a host for next year's conference. It would be great if a local seed network in Western Australia, Tasmania or Northern Territory would take up this opportunity to promote seed saving as we have not had conferences in those states before. It has been twelve years since we had one in Qld.

March 2008

Banana Galore in the Solomon Islands: Banana galore short video clip on www.seedsavers.net Fresh from the oven!
Our 20th Annual Conference was held in Gulgong: For the first time in its twenty two year history the Annual Seed Savers Conference was held in the Central West of NSWat the Gulgong Showground 29th to 30th March 2008.

November 2007

Animal Breed Ownership Concentration: Consumers are usually not told which breeds of chicken, cattle or swine have produced the eggs, milk and meat offered in the supermarkets or the butchery shops. They should get interested, since they are contributing to the development of a global genetic monoculture.

August 2007

Seed Savers' Film Clip on the Web: Do you believe that traditional varieties deliver more nutrition, are suited to organic growing and are culturally significant? Then you will want to see our new four minute film clip, "Guardians of the Seed", that celebrates the yummy things in life.
New Book on School Food Gardens Published: Want to establish a food garden in a school? Here is the book for you.

March 2007

Cities Feeding People - Seed Savers' Nineteenth Conference: Excellent 19th Conference held in Melbourne in March 2007

December 2006

Highland farmers of PNG to keep traditional crops: When Seedsavers Australia travels to traditional/tribal farmers it is never with the intention of teaching them better ways to feed themselves or to save seeds.

May 2006

Seed Savers in Taiwan: Civil societies strong interest in traditional seed conservation

August 2005

Watching the earth from shuttle Discovery: Shuttle Commander Eileen Collins Sees Wide Environmental Damage

April 2005

Monsanto Seed Giant: Corporate seed experts discover heirlooms off the beaten path...

November 2004

Iraq Alert: Seeds are becoming big transnational business in Iraq

September 2004

Rare Bananas in Makira: Collecting Banana Diversity in an Outer Island of The Pacific

May 2004

News from Local Seed Networks around Australia: There are more than sixty local seed networks in Australia, organising the exchange of seeds between local gardeners and spreading seed saving skills.
New Zealand's Seed Scene: An invitation to speak at the Eco-Show near Auckland, New Zealand provided the opportunity to meet with members of the sixteen Seed Savers organisations in that country.

April 2004

Coordinating Local Seed Networks: Local Seed Network Courses

January 2004

Report from former intern, James Sprunt in India: James trained at the Seed Centre as an intern in August 2003 for three weeks and went on soon afterwards to work in one of our sister organisations, the GREEN Foundation in India.

November 2003

The First Melanesian Farmers' Seed Saving Conference: The First Melanesian Farmers' Seed Saving Conference was held in June 2003 at Choiseul Bay, the most westerly point of The Solomon Islands. Seed Savers helped to organise the attendance of several representatives of sustainable agriculture groups in Melanesian countries.

September 2003

Preserving Crop Diversity in Afghanistan: Seed Savers has given help in the western city of Herat through a Japanese aid agency. Projects include a tree nursery, courtyard gardens in the poorer suburbs, support for the agriculture department of the university, design for irrigation channels and a plan to preserve traditional crops.

July 2003

Andean Seed Matters: Notes from the highlands

December 2002

Promoting Local Seed Systems in East Timor: Michel and Jude Fanton tell of raising awareness of the current level of seed diversity in East Timor and dispel myths about the benefits of imported seeds over locally adapted seeds.

August 2002

Seed Intern in East Timor: Things related to seeds have been popping up here of late. Report from Amy Glastonbury in Dili, East Timor
Interns work with Aborigines: Two young women who have trained at The Seed Centre have been working in schools in the Northern Territory, Australia, with aborigines.
Seed Saving Tour of India: Jude Fanton went to India for three and a half weeks to give a workshop for GREEN Foundation in Bangalore and to visit other projects that do similar work to Seed Savers' Network.

June 2002

Seed work in the Philippines: Seed Savers participation in a National Seed Congress on Local Seed Systems for Genetic Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture.
Michel on speaking tour of Japan: In July Seed Savers' co-founder, Michel Fanton, went to Japan to speak to consumer and farmers' groups about conservation of food plant varieties.
Seed Activities in Micronesian Schools: Seed saving taught in a high school in Pohnpei in February 2001. Report by Frank Frost (retired policeman and long time seed saver)
Seed Saving in Cuba: Report on The Havana Seed Savers Network (La Red de Semillas) from Pam Morgan

April 2002

Taro Diversity Fair: 843 varieties of taro have been collected by The Planting Material Network in The Solomon Islands over the last year with funding from the EU and the South Pacific Commission's Taro-gen Project.