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Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Change
Green Bites
English - September 11, 2020 15:24 - 38 minutes - 89.5 MBFood Arts Science Nature cooking ecology farming food sustainability culinary environment growing irish soil Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Ireland is almost entirely dependent on imported seed for all its commercial and garden food crop seeds. During the Covid-19 restrictions, this dependence was highlighted when both Ireland's organic seed suppliers, Irish Seedsavers and Brown Envelope Seeds, were forced to limit access to their website to ration their seeds in response to the boom in interesting in growing vegetables.
Ellie visits both Irish Seedsavers and Brown Envelope Seeds to explore the implications of this for our food security and sovereignty.