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12, 2024
Kickstart Your Gardening Season!
December is the perfect time for gardeners to dream and plan for the upcoming growing season. As winter's chill sets in, grab a warm drink, settle into a cozy spot, and browse the Irish Seed Savers 2025 Seed Catalogue to discover the varieties you’d like to grow in the new year. This planning phase is essential for [...]
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12, 2024
Take Our 2024 Customer Survey!
At Irish Seed Savers, we are deeply committed to preserving Ireland's rich food crop heritage and ensuring its future for generations to come. Your support and feedback play a vital role in helping us achieve these goals. That’s why we’re excited to invite you to take part in our 2024 Customer Survey! This is your chance [...]
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12, 2024
The Wait is Over: The Irish Seed Savers 2025 Seed Catalogue is Here!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Irish Seed Savers 2025 Seed Catalogue! This year’s collection features an astounding 155 varieties of vegetables, herbs, and flowers. Each one has been carefully chosen for its adaptability to our changing climate, exceptional taste, nutrition, beauty, and its role in supporting biodiversity. Locally Grown, Naturally Resilient [...]
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12, 2024
Join Our 2-Year Seed to Seed Course
The Art and Science of Growing and Saving Seed Kickstart your journey to become a Seed Guardian with the Irish Seed Savers Association! Starting in 2025, our comprehensive Seed to Seed Training Course is designed for those passionate about growing high-quality seeds. Learn from Experts: Modular, hands-on training at our organic farm in [...]
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11, 2024
Discover the Power of Seeds in the Podcast SEED
In April 2022, Eoin Murphy stood outside the iconic Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, reflecting on the immense importance of the seeds stored within and the role they might play in humanity's future. During an interview on the remote Arctic archipelago, a thought-provoking question was posed: why do people focus on the Seed Vault itself [...]
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11, 2024
Bareroot Apple Tree Sales are now Live!
It's that wonderful time of year when our exclusive collection of bareroot Irish heritage apple trees are available to purchase online! This is a unique opportunity to bring a piece of Ireland’s rich agricultural history into your garden or orchard. Each tree in our collection comes from traditional Irish varieties—many rescued from near [...]
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10, 2024
A Visit to Garden Organic and the Heritage Seed Library
Exploring the Heritage Seed Library Gillian and Arabella were welcomed by Catrina Fenton, Head of the Heritage Seed Library, who guided them through the facility and gardens. The team learned about the organization’s growing for seed, seed processing and seed drying processes. The HSL’s crop garden features main crops, calendula, and comfrey collections. The [...]
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08, 2024
Join the search for heritage fruit trees and hops!
In 2024, Irish Seed Savers received funding from The Heritage Council to expand the National Heritage Fruit Tree Collection. This project focuses on finding rare varieties of plums, damsons, gages, bullaces, and pears. We need your help to preserve these valuable fruit tree varieties! How You Can Help: Contact Us: If you have or [...]
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08, 2024
Celebrate National Heritage Week at Irish Seed Savers
Get ready to immerse yourself in the wonders of Ireland's agricultural heritage for National Heritage Week 2024! This August, mark your calendars for an unforgettable experience at Irish Seed Savers in County Clare. Join us on Saturday, August 24th, for a day of free guided tours through the enchanting heritage seed gardens and [...]
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08, 2024
Return to Nature Clare Church Biodiversity Project
The ‘Return to Nature Clare Church Biodiversity Project’ is a project led and funded by Clare County Council with funding also from the Local Biodiversity Action Fund administered by the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). The project came about in 2023 when the Irish Bishops' Conference agreed on a policy that parishes [...]
