Native Seeds/SEARCH

Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona. NS/S works 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.

Our mission began in 1983, springing from the nexus of cultural longing and impending loss of genetic diversity. Today we safeguard 2000 varieties of arid-land adapted agricultural crops. Some, like watermelons, were adapted from seeds brought by early Europeans. Most of our collection consists of varieties of indigenous crops developed over centuries or millennia to suit the needs of their human partners. We promote the use of these ancient crops and their wild relatives by distributing seeds to traditional communities and to gardeners world wide.

Currently we offer 350 varieties from our collection, grown out at our Conservation Farm in Patagonia, Arizona. We also work to preserve knowledge about the traditional uses of the crop we steward. Through research, seed distribution and community outreach NS/S seeks to protect biodiversity and to celebrate cultural diversity. Both are essential in connecting the past to the future.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Navdanya

Navdanya means “nine seeds” (symbolizing protection of biological and cultural diversity) and also the “new gift” (for seed as commons, based on the right to save and share seeds In today’s context of biological and ecological destruction, seed savers are the true givers of seed. This gift or “dana” of Navadhanyas (nine seeds) is the ultimate gift – it is a gift of life, of heritage and continuity. Conserving seed is conserving biodiversity, conserving knowledge of the seed and its utilization, conserving culture, conserving sustainability.

Navdanya has its own seed bank and organic farm spread over an ares of 20 acres in Uttrakhand, north India.

Navdanya has so far successfully conserved more than 5000 crop varieties including 3000 of rice, 95 of wheat, 150 of kidney beans (rajma), 15 of millets and and several varieties of pulses, vegetable, medicinal plants etc.

Kategori: Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 No Patents on Seeds

The No Patents on Seeds coalition is initiated by the Berne Declaration, Greenpeace, Misereor, No Patents on Life, Swissaid and the Norwegian Development Fund, and campaigns for a clear regulation in patent law.

Their initiative is supported globally by over 300 NGOs and farmers’ organisations, and has collected about 100.000 signatures against patents on plants and animals. The coalition now urges the institutions of the EU to go for clear legal regulations to exclude from patentability plants and animals, genetic material and processes for breeding of plants and animals and food derived thereof.

Kategori: Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie | Frøavl og frøsamlere

 Norske Genressurser

Bevaring av genetiske ressurser og en bærekraftig forvaltning av disse er av grunnleggende betydning for å opprettholde biologisk mangfold og for fremtidige generasjoners matvaresikkerhet, livskvalitet og velferd. Genetiske ressurser i husdyr, kulturplanter og skogstrær er det levende grunnlaget for dagens landbruk og vilkåret for videre utvikling. Et stort genetisk mangfold har vært en nødvendig forutsetning for utvikling av et samfunn fundert på jord- og skogbruk. Fremtidens behov for genetisk variasjon vil ikke være mindre, verken i naturen, i landbruket eller innenfor andre sektorer som benytter biologisk materiale.

Ved modernisering av landbruket, globalisering av produksjon, handel og et generelt press på planter og dyrs leveområder kan genetisk materiale ugjenkallelig bli borte. Dagens genressursforvaltning vil derfor ha avgjørende betydning for økologisk og økonomisk utvikling. I tillegg har vi en etisk forpliktelse til å sørge for gode levevilkår for andre organismer, noe som også er viktig for vår egen natur- og kulturopplevelse.

Norge har ansvar for å forvalte sine genetiske ressurser på en bærekraftig måte, noe som blant annet er stadfestet gjennom internasjonale konvensjoner og avtaler.

Kategori: Offentlige organisationer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Pometet

Et pomet er en samling af sorter af frugttræer & -buske. Ordet er afledt det latinske ord "pomum", som betyder æble. Pometets sortsamling er meget omfattende - der er bl.a. ca. 750 æblesorter, hvoraf ca. 250 er danske. Inden for andre frugtarter ligger sortsantallet ofte mellem 80 & 120. Samlingen har ikke kun pomologisk (frugtalvlsmæssig) interesse, men fungerer også som genbank og indgår i "Nordisk Genbank". Der knytter sig også en kulturhistorisk interesse ikke mindst til æblesorterne, hvoraf mange er mere end 100 år gamle.

Kategori: Besøgshaver og udstillinger | Forskning og uddannelse | Gamle sorter og historie

 Programmet för odlad mångfald

Programmet för odlad mångfald, POM, är en nationell satsning för att bättre bevara och nyttja våra kulturväxter. Sveriges Riksdag beslutade redan 2000 att POM skulle genomföras som ett verktyg för att förverkliga Konventionen om biologisk mångfald eller Riokonventionen.

Jordbruksverket ansvarar för POM och Centrum för biologisk mångfald samordnar programmet. Därutöver deltar många organisationer, myndigheter, företag, botaniska trädgårdar och andra.

POM har för närvarande sex olika inventeringsprogram som dammsuger Sverige på bär, frukt, perenner, narcisser och frön.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Offentlige organisationer

 ProSpecieRara

ProSpecieRara ist eine schweizerische, nicht-Profit-orientierte Stiftung. Sie wurde 1982 gegründet, um gefährdete Nutztierrassen und Kulturpflanzen vor dem Aussterben zu bewahren. Spiegelschaf, Wollschwein, Rote Gartenmelde, Goldmöstler und viele andere beleben seither wieder Felder, Höfe und Wiesen.

Als Folge der Artenschutzkonvention von Rio 1992 unterschrieb der Bund das Artenschutzabkommen von Leipzig. Damit verpflichtete sich die Schweiz, sämtliche Ressourcen bei Tieren und Pflanzen zu erhalten. Ein globaler Aktionsplan beschreibt, wie dieser Schutz zu erfolgen hat. In diese Erhaltungsarbeit sind auch die — teilweise vom Bund unterstützten — Tätigkeiten der Stiftung ProSpecieRara eingebettet.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Runåbergs Fröer

Välkommen till Runåbergs sida på nätet. Här finns hela vårt sortiment med flera äldre och uvanliga sorter. Många ekologiskt odlade. Vi har sedan starten 1982 erbjudit frö till växter som vi vet klarar vårt klimat i Skandinavien. Allt testas i flera år innan vi tar in det i sortimentet. Där främst fritidsodlare, som hittar vad de söker hos oss.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie | Økologi

 Saving Our Seeds

Our mission is to promote sustainable, ecological, organic vegetable seed production in the Mid-Atlantic and South. Saving Our Seeds provides information, resources, and publications for gardeners, farmers, seed savers, and seed growers.

This site is provided courtesy of Jeff McCormack, founder and previous owner of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, founder and owner of Garden Medicinals and Culinaries, and co-founder of Virginia Plant Savers. Saving Our Seeds provides another path for raising awareness of our threatened genetic resources, and as an additional resource for providing information and knowledge tools for seed saving and seed conservation.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Økologi

 Seed Savers Exchange

Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit organization that saves and shares the heirloom seeds of our garden heritage, forming a living legacy that can be passed down through generations.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Foreninger

 Seed Savers Network

The Seed Savers' Network has the following charitable and educational purposes in its deeds...

To develop and promote:

• Educational programmes for the preservation of open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds and the genetic diversity of plant varieties;
• Non-profit seed exchange programmes;
• Agricultural and horticultural programmes with particular emphasis on the propagation of open-pollinated plant varieties;
• Preservation gardens for open-pollinated plant varieties;
• Seed banks for non-hybrid plant varieties;
• Scientific research relating to the above matters, either alone or in conjunction with a public university or other institution.

To Provide:

• Financial and educational assistance to community development projects - local and overseas;
• Open-pollinated seed stock to individuals, groups and communities.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Seeds Of Change

In 1989, Seeds of Change started with a simple mission: to help preserve biodiversity and promote sustainable, organic agriculture. By cultivating hundreds of open-pollinated, organically grown, heirloom and traditional vegetable, flower and herb seeds, we have kept to this mission.

Seeds: Our seed list is like our extended family. They are the plants we live with day-to-day, nurturing them as they nurture us. So we choose carefully what we add to our list from year to year.

Kategori: Forhandlere og frøfirmaer | Gamle sorter og historie

 Seeds of Diversity

Seeds of Diversity is a Canadian charitable organization dedicated to the conservation, documentation and use of public-domain non-hybrid plants of Canadian significance. Our 1700 members from coast to coast are gardeners, farmers, teachers, scientists, agricultural historians, researchers and seed vendors. Together we grow, propagate and distribute over 1500 varieties of vegetables, fruit, grains, flowers and herbs. We are a living gene bank.

Formerly known as the Heritage Seed Program, a project of the Canadian Organic Growers since 1984, Seeds of Diversity Canada is now an independent charitable corporation operated by a volunteer board of directors. Our work is funded mainly by membership fees and private donations.

Kategori: Foreninger | Gamle sorter og historie

 Skrubtudsens have

Skrubtudsen Bufo bufo.

Den lille prins er en af vores vigtigste medarbejdere i haven. Mød ham og de planter han passer i en have på Amager.

Han ved det måske ikke, men haven er også en frøsamler have, hvor gamle sorter bevares og nye skabes.

Kategori: Private sider og blogs | Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Southern Exposure Seed Exchange

Southern Exposure Seed Exchange is a wonderful source for heirloom seeds and other open-pollinated (non-hybrid) seeds with an emphasis on vegetables, flowers, and herbs that grow well in the Mid-Atlantic region. We support seed saving and traditional seed breeding. Seed savers and breeders are to thank for our rich selection and we will do whatever we can to support our customers and associates to carry on this noble tradition.

Our seed company started in 1982 as an outgrowth of a love affair with heirloom varieties and in seed saving. Southern Exposure Seed Exchange had its beginning in a small family garden and a kitchen co-opted for seed processing. The kitchen garden has since expanded to numerous growing areas supplemented by a nationwide seed grower network. Now the seed company has its own office, germination testing facility, and environmentally controlled seed storage areas.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Southern Seed Legacy

Southern Seed Legacy strives to reverse the plant erosion of genetic diversity and cultural knowledge in the American South by encouraging and supporting local seed saving exchange networks and in situ conservation of plant genetic resources. We also house a small seed collection that serves as a backup for crop varieties that are in particular danger of going extinct and a memory bank that documents the cultural history of many southern heirloom varieties.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie

 Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas (SKUD)

Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas (SKUD) är ett nationellt referensverktyg och en standard för verk, myndigheter, företag, forskare, skribenter, konsumenter och andra som arbetar med eller nyttjar kulturväxter.

SKUD omfattar information över växter, deras namn och egenskaper. Liksom många biologiska dokumentationssystem bygger även den botaniska nomenklaturen till stor del på hierarkier i vilka man så exakt som möjligt försöker beskriva de taxonomiska relationerna mellan olika växter.

Kategori: Databaser | Gamle sorter og historie

 Tater-Mater

Tom Wagners blog is devoted to potato and tomato breeding, but may include forays into politics, culture, and the like.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Private sider og blogs

 Tater-Mater forum

Tater-Mater forum about anything related to potato and tomato breeding.

Kategori: Frøavl og frøsamlere | Gamle sorter og historie | Havefora