Store
Dried to 6%, then frozen
Seed goes into laminate foil at minus twenty. At that moisture and temperature most cereals stay viable for a century, and most brassicas do not, which is why the next two steps exist.
A working seed bank for landrace vegetables and cereals. Everything here is open-pollinated, freely available to any grower who asks, and grown out on a rotation so the stock stays alive rather than merely stored.
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Accessions in store
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Grown out this season
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Patents, ever
Accession CF-0221
Collected Skåne, 1974
Species Secale cereale
Last grown out 2024
Store
Seed goes into laminate foil at minus twenty. At that moisture and temperature most cereals stay viable for a century, and most brassicas do not, which is why the next two steps exist.
Grow
Every accession is grown out and re-harvested on a rotation. Isolation cages for the outbreeders, and a volunteer network of 140 growers doing the rest on allotments.
Give
Any grower can request up to five lines a season at no charge. There is no material transfer agreement, no royalty, and no clause about what you may breed from it.
Tell us what you grow and roughly where. We prioritise growers within the climate a line came from, then anyone willing to send harvest notes back at the end of the season.
Request seed for 2027