Our Branches
PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS and some resources for members of the community
Benguet Association of Seed Savers (BASS)
The Benguet Association of Seed Savers (BASS) was formed in 2016 and is an indigenous rural farmers association, comprised of 25 farmers from the Benguet Province of the Philippines.
This group came together with the support of Global Seed Savers (GSS), after GSS hosted a seed school in Tublay, Benguet in 2015 and connected with a core group of seven farmers who were interested in launching BASS to save their own seeds and restore diversity to their food system.
BASS is a registered rural farmer’s association with the Department of Labor and Employment in the Philippines. The purpose of BASS is to support seed saving as an ancestral practice of the tribes represented by BASS while also increasing the propagation of indigenous seeds, and building a community of support for like-minded and like-practicing farmers.
All BASS farmers have a shared commitment to restoring their ancestral organic farming practices and supporting the resilience of the region, while ensuring that more farmers have access to seeds through hosting seed swaps, technical education programs, and managing a farmer led, owned, and operated organic seed library.
BASS Officers
Connie and Karen during 2019 field visit
BASS Farmers sharing seeds
Pastor Andrew with his Seeds at 2016 Seed School in Baguio City
Connie BASS Farmer with Dill Seeds
BASS Farmer Pastor Andrew with Corn
Saving Tomato Seeds at Seed School in Baguio 2016
Field Visits with Visitors from RMSA and DUG 2016 Tublay
BASS Farmer Andrew Cleaning Seeds
Farmer Boaz an Lettuce going to seed
BASS Farmer Pastor Andrew with Beans
Efren with BASS Farmer Macario
Philippines Address
Our local staff work remotely
from various parts of the Philippines (Benguet, Cebu).
To contact our Philippines team, fill up this contact form.
US Address
Located at
The Posner Center
for International Development
1031 33rd Street, Ste. 174
Denver, CO 80205
info@globalseedsavers.org
Our US offices are based in Denver, Colorado, which is the land of the Cheyenne and Arapaho and 48 other Indigenous Tribes and Nations who call Colorado home. They are the original Stewards of this stolen land and it is because of their successes and continued hardships that we are able to engage in our collective work of restoring the indigenous practice of saving seeds.
