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Become a seed saviour - donate to our Big Give appeal!

We need your help to raise £20K for our unique Heritage Seed Library later this month to protect rare vegetable varieties and the UK's declining cultivated biodiversity.
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All donations made to our Heritage Seed Library between 22-29 April will be doubled by Big Give

We’re losing vegetable seed varieties at an alarming rate - leading us closer to vulnerable monocultures and the loss of valuable cultivated biodiversity. But you can help us stop this decline by donating to our Heritage Seed Library via our Big Give Green Match Fund.

Between midday Tuesday 22 April and midday Tuesday 29 April you can become a seed saviour by donating to our #GreenMatchFund - and help our Heritage Seed Library continue to conserve valuable vegetable varieties.

All donations made via our Big Give page between these dates will be doubled: making double the impact!

CLICK THE LINK HERE from 12pm on 22 April to have your donations doubled.

Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library conserves 800 varieties of vegetables in its National Collection that might otherwise be lost. It stores them for safekeeping, regrows to replenish stock, and shares 30,000+ packets of seed annually to growers and Seed Guardians across the UK.

Seeds are just the start

Just a handful of heritage seeds is the beginning of something much bigger: and saving them can help preserve declining cultivated biodiversity.

What is cultivated biodiversity? This means growing as wide a range of crops and plants as possible to offer nutritional and genetic diversity, and help us better withstand pest and diseases.

Conserving heritage, landrace and open-pollinated varieties makes our horticultural and agricultural system more sustainable, saves skills and heritage, future-proofs our food system and helps gardens and growing spaces develop resilience in the face of climate change.

What your Big Give donations will support

Your doubled donations will help us research, grow and evaluate new heritage vegetable varieties and maintain and upgrade vital seed-saving equipment. With your funds, we’ll be able to share more varieties via our Seed List and to our Seed Guardians so they can continue to be grown for future generations.

Please donate! Click the link here at 12pm on 22 April to have your donation doubled.

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Donate via The Big Give Green Match Fund and have your donation doubled until the 29 April.

Donate here