New report highlights locally-grown seed diversity in Canada
OTTAWA, CANADA – May 21, 2024 – The non-profit organization, SeedChange, has published a new report titled “Building Climate-Resilient Seed… View Article
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Where to find local vegetable seeds in Canada
Here’s how you can find local seeds and keep seed diversity alive.
Where does your vegetable seed come from?
Just like the seeds we plant in our gardens, the vegetable seed industry in Canada is really diverse!
Leadership Transition Plants the Seeds for New Beginnings
After nearly seven years of service to the organization – first as a board member and now as Executive Director… View Article
Remembering Mark Austin
The SeedChange family mourns the loss of our former colleague and friend Mark Austin.
Call for nominations: SeedChange and SeedChange Foundation Board of Directors
Both of SeedChange’s boards are recruiting new members in 2023. SeedChange’s mission is to build food sovereignty by working with… View Article
Meet Troy Mitchell: SeedChange donor, beloved board member, and “voice from the rock”
“Seeds represent that willingness and ability to do something from the very beginning. Seeds are figuratively and literally the beginning… View Article
Discovering oca: a vital crop of the Andes
What’s brightly coloured, grows underground and looks like a potato but isn’t? Although they are completely unrelated, oca looks like… View Article
From seed shortages to a thriving local seed system
Your support helped change the seed system in Cuba. Sixteen years ago, Cuba’s National Institute for Agricultural Sciences asked SeedChange… View Article
Uniting farmers against climate change with Bruce Lourie
SeedChange Board member Bruce Lourie’s passion for environmentalism was sparked in an unlikely setting: summers spent working at a mining… View Article
Hannah’s joy: spinach, tomatoes, and money to send her children to school.
No matter where we live, some things are common to all of us. Like wanting our children to grow up… View Article
Would you eat food contaminated with pesticides? Beatrice didn’t want to, either.
Here are two things you might not know about Kenya. First, kale and other leafy greens are a staple in… View Article
Spiral gardens: food, empowerment and resilience for women farmers in Kenya
What are spiral gardens? Spiral gardens are a powerful and eco-friendly growing technique used around the world to grow a… View Article
Our best squash recipes
From roasted squash to salad, soup and cookies, we gathered here our favourite squash recipes to help you make the… View Article
Can you save that seed?
SeedChange releases a new guide for farmers to help them navigate Canada’s intellectual property rights restrictions on seeds Those of… View Article
The future of farming: how agroecology can transform the food system
Most of the food we find in the grocery store these days is produced as part of the industrial food… View Article