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Sowing your Seeds: Heritage Crops for a Resilient Future

We’re excited to launch a unique two-year project - ‘Sowing your Seeds: Heritage Crops for a Resilient Future’ – funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, to conserve and pass on heirloom vegetable seeds in central England communities.

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    Adding your seeds to our national collection

    Lucy Shepherd, community horticultural project coordinator for our Sowing Your Seeds project, shares an update on the scheme – and 11 exciting new acquisitions.

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    Seeds and stories take root in our #SeedSearch project

    Our National Lottery Heritage funded ‘Sowing Your Seeds’ project has discovered 30 new seed varieties in the Midlands, says project coordinators Giselle and Lucy.

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    Community coordinators join the Heritage Seed Library

    We’re delighted to introduce two new coordinators who will be overseeing our National Lottery Heritage project.

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    Warwick Vegetable Gene Bank donates to our #SeedSearch project

    Catrina shares some exciting news about a new collaboration as part of our National Lottery Heritage Fund project

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Planning your growing space for seed saving
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Saving seeds from Peppers and Lettuce
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Saving seeds from Peas, Beans and Tomatoes

Events

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    Nottingham Organic Gardens Spring Event — 18 April 2026

    Join the Sowing Your Seeds project at Nottingham Organic Gardeners Spring event. We'll have an HSL stall with seed jars, and we'll be sharing our Sowing your seeds project with gardeners from Nottinghamshire.

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    Introduction to the Heritage Seed Library — Worcester Community Garden — 14 April 2026

    Join us at Worcester Community Garden to discover and learn why we grow heritage seeds. Explore the history, flavour, resilience and biodiversity benefits of heritage varieties.

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Supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund

Using money raised by National Lottery players, The National Lottery Heritage Fund supports projects that connect people and communities with the UK’s heritage. Sowing Your Seeds is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, we have been able to conserve and pass on precious community vegetable varieties.

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