Adaptive Seed Saving Enterprise on 1-1.5 Acres across SW / SE / Midlands
Adaptive Seed Saving Enterprise on 1-1.5 Acres across SW / SE / Midlands
Meet Miranda, she has worked hard over the last six years to build a diverse portfolio of experience in organic food growing, which has led to her passion for adaptive seed saving and production. Miranda intends to develop diverse populations of a variety of crops, increasing their adaptation to specific regions and therefore their resilience to certain conditions. She aims to develop populations that are resilient to the extremes of climate change, encouraging crops which are dry farmed and only require emergency watering for instance. The adaptive seed movement is growing with organisations such as the Gaia Foundaiton’s Seed Sovereignty Programme promoting it and various organic seed companies diversifying their seed stock in this way.
Miranda is looking for one to one and a half acres to establish her enterprise and will grow seed for wholesale in the first instance while the adaptive seed is developed. She is seeking a landowner who understands the process of adapting seed, as it can take several seasons to become a marketable product. Eventually she would sell the seed direct to consumers online such as home growers and small to medium scale market gardeners. Miranda would need access to a polytunnel or permission to install one, a water supply, electricity, a space for drying and cleaning seeds as well as for packing and she would need to live onsite or nearby. Ideally there would be additional employment opportunities on the farm.
This opportunity would suit a farm with an existing community of businesses on it, particularly a market garden which could work with the seed saving business.
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