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What are genetically modified seeds?
Genetically Modified crops are a step beyond hybrids. By definition GM seed is unnatural.
What are open pollinated seeds?
Open Pollinated Seeds are pollinated by natural means. These varieties remain true-to-type, year after year.
What are Hybrid seeds?
Hybrid seeds are the result of human manipulated pollination between two distinct varieties.
Sowing the seeds of diversity
By growing and saving heirloom varieties, gardeners play an important role in the ongoing curation and localisation of the food we eat.
What does it cost to save an heirloom variety from extinction?
Become a seed sponsor and help Diggers preserve heirloom seeds for gardeners of the future, so they can enjoy the best of the past.
Heirloom seeds; digging deeper
Growing heirlooms connects us all to an age-old community of gardeners and farmers.
Heirloom Seeds - Past and Future
The genetic diversity of heirloom plants is crucial to maintaining genetic diversity of the world’s food crops.
Why are Seeds so Important to Us?
"A seed has everything it needs to form a new plant."
How We Produce Our Heirloom Seeds
Many of our open-pollinated heirloom varieties are produced at the Diggers Seed Production Area on the site of the Diggers Preservation Garden.