The Highland People's Food Seedbank Project

See http://thehighlandpeoplesfoodseedbank.webs.com/


The aim of this project is to bring local communities together, by involving individual gardeners, groups, allotment holders and schools in growing heirloom vegetables well adapted to the Highland climate and soils.


To instruct them on how to collect the seeds, clean, dry and package them in a home/kitchen environment, using everyday household tools.


These seeds will then be added to the Highland Peoples food seed bank, so that within 10 years enough viable food seed is held in domestic freezers (seedbanks) in villages and towns across the Highlands to feed its 250,000 inhabitants.


Information is also made available on saving the harvest by bottling, pickling, drying, clamping so that gardeners can overcome the short harvesting season in the Highlands.