Sustain member Garden Organic doesn't just promote organic gardening methods. It also works to conserve traditional and unusual varieties of food plants, which might otherwise be lost as commercial growers favour fewer and newer varieties.
One important way of doing this is for growers to swap seeds. Each year, Garden Organic devotes a section of its catalogue to seed swappers - individuals with excess seed, or those on the lookout for particular varieties to swap. It's a great opportunity to share seed with other likeminded growers, or get your hands on something a bit different -- and it also helps protect biodiversity, which is vital to adaptive, sustainable food production.
Garden Organic is about to compile its 2017 catalogue. If you'd like to be included, click here to find out where to send details of the varieties you are offering or looking for.
Sustain has several projects that support food growing. Click here to read about the Capital Growth campaign, which links more than 2,500 local growing schemes in London, or here to find out about Growing Health, which is exploring how community food growing can be used by health and social care providers to increase health and wellbeing.
Sustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
