Through a regionally delivered model across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the Seed Sovereignty Programme is working to achieve an increase in seed diversity and locally adapted seed and thriving local community seed offerings across the UK & Ireland.

They are doing this by training networks of growers in the skill of seed saving, and supporting these trainees to go on and create commercially viable small scale seed businesses, social enterprises, cooperatives and community hubs where locally adapted and resilient seed can be made available. The SSP will also support growers to trial and produce new seed varieties, and conduct research into the economic viability of small-scale seed production here in the UK.

In this way they are hoping to ensure that UK-produced, open-pollinated seed is at the heart of the regenerative agriculture movement.

Treebeard is providing multi-year restricted funding to the Gaia Foundation, restricted to the Seed Sovereignty Programme.