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01, 2023
Annual Community Seed Share 2023
Join the Irish Seed Savers Community Seed Exchange on Saturday 25th February - an exciting event for individuals, gardening and community groups to come together to share and swap seeds! Bring any spare seeds, or your own saved seeds, to share and swap with other growers. From the rare to the everyday varieties, this event [...]
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01, 2023
Heirloom – An exhibition of new work by artist Rachel Doolin
Irish Seed Savers Association are delighted to have collaborated with visual artist Rachel Doolin to create a national exhibition. This exciting project is part of our focus to raise awareness about the importance of seed sovereignty, biodiversity, food security and our food heritage. The exhibition titled HEIRLOOM launched in the Lexicon Cultural Centre in Dún [...]
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11, 2022
Irish Seed Savers Feature on RTE Home Grown Series
Irish Seed Savers were thrilled to feature on Episode 2 of RTE series Home Grown on Monday November 14th. Home Grown is a brand new 7-part series which celebrates the Irish Horticulture industry and is presented by Kitty Scully and Colm O’Driscoll, who travel all over Ireland in search of stories that celebrate Irish Horticulture [...]
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10, 2022
Other Stories Publication Launch at Irish Seed Savers
On Thursday 13th October Irish Seed Savers Association was the venue for the latest in-person launch of ‘Other Stories, Cultural Heritage & Society’. Our beautiful site was a hive of activity as staff, volunteers and students from ALFA Steiner Secondary School gathered with representatives of International Council on Monuments & Sites (ICOMOS) Ireland. ICOMOS Ireland [...]
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09, 2022
Irish Heritage Potted Apple Trees Now on Sale
Irish Seed are delighted to announce our selection of potted organic Irish heritage apples are now available to buy in store at Irish Seed Savers in Scariff, Co.Clare. Come along to view the selection on offer and let our knowledgeable staff talk you through the many varieties of Irish heritage apple trees available or ‘reserve’ [...]
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09, 2022
Seed to Seed – Two Year Intermediate Seed Saving Course
This course is aimed at organic farmers, market/community/home gardeners who are interested in learning how to save vegetable seed organically for themselves, their community or as an enterprise. It consists of eight in person modules over 2 years and is further supported by a once a month 1 hour online meeting and an online learning [...]
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07, 2022
Free Guided Tours in July and August
Join us for a Free Guided Tour every Friday at 11am in July and August. Treat yourself to an expert led tour at the best time of year to explore our heritage seed gardens and polytunnels filled with vegetable crops growing for seed and heritage orchards brimming with apples. Marvel at the heritage orchards that [...]
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06, 2022
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 character of our indigenous black [...]
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06, 2022
How to Save Seed – Video Tutorials
Irish Seed Savers are delighted to present four films about how we grow for seed and save seed. The foundation of growing for seed is good soil, which you can learn about in the first video 'Soil, Seed and Sustainability'. This is followed by three videos detailing how to grow for seed and save seed [...]
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05, 2022
Tastes of the Orchards 2022
These apple tasting tours are always a highlight of the year and offer you the chance to taste some of Ireland’s rare heritage apple varieties. Our knowledgeable orchard staff will bring you on a guided tour of the orchards. Discussing our conservation work, talking about the many rare varieties we have in our orchards (180+ [...]
