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    SAVING TOMORROW’S FOOD

    Jun 05, 2022 4 minutes

    TINY dried out seeds, sitting in hand; stored energy patiently waiting to grow another day. There’s something exciting about looking through seed collections. All that growing potential; the eating, the visual splendour to come, therapeutic gardening weaving its magic, the connection to both where our food comes from and to Nature. There’s a lot of promise within those carefully gathered dried seeds.

    Whether it’s looking through a catalogue, sorting your home stored collection, or flipping through your local seed library – that buzz, doesn’t ever seem to fade – seeds are exciting!

    The Newcastle Seed Library network certainly thinks so. It’s been running since October 2020. More than 1,500 seed

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