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Cucurbits - Saving seeds from courgettes and pumpkins is the final film in a series of four showcasing the work we do at Irish Seed Savers. In this short film our garden team demonstrate how to save seeds from courgettes and pumpkins, dry and store them in your own home. [...]
NIHBS welcomes the Irish Seed Savers Association to the Conservation Area Family
The Native Irish Honey Bee Society have joined up with Irish Seed Savers to help in the conservation of Ireland's native black honeybees. "Irish Seed Savers have signed up to be A Voluntary Conservation Area for Ireland's native black honeybees. Irish Seed Savers are committed to preserving the local genetic [...]
Life on the Farm – June 2022
Our orchard team are working together with Dr Gordon Reid to take leaf samples from old orchards around Ireland. This is part funded by the Genetic Resource Grant Aid Scheme and we are targeting significant orchards in Bantry House, Birr Castle, Dunsany Castle, Franciscan Monastery on Achill Island, an abandoned famine village [...]