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Students presenting during the Cebu training for trainers
Seed School
Seed School is the first part of a three part program that includes Seed School Teacher Training and Introduction to Permaculture. Seed School is the flagship of Global Seed Savers Philippines’ trainings. The participants of this program are people who will eventually become part of a bigger movement of seed keepers in the Philippines or those who are interested in starting seed libraries in their communities.
Want to host a seed school in your community?
General Objectives
- To help people go back to the ancient practice of saving seeds.
- To ensure that people understand the importance of seed saving and its role in biodiversity conservation, culture preservation, food sovereignty, and seed sovereignty.
- To create a safe and fertile space for everybody’s learning and sharing.
- To help people understand that there is a wealth of possible food crops in the Philippines.
- To ensure that people know the value of growing food for themselves and the key role seeds play in this.
Seed Schools, 2015 to present
First Seed School, 2015
Happy Farmers getting to know their neighbors during the opening activity! Thanks for the wonderful pictures Dave Leprezo Jr.
Seed School 2016 Baguio City
Seed School Baguio 2016
Seed School in Baguio 2016
Seed School 2017 Tublay, Benguet
Tublay Seed School, 2018
Participants are learning how to test for germination.
Train the Trainer in Tublay 2017 (Trust Activites)
Train the Trainers 2017 Tublay
Kai Farm Seed School Facilitators Ester and Connie 2017
Cebu Seed School, 2018
Participants learning to clean seeds for seed saving.
Cebu, 2018
Graduation day!
Mt. Province Seed School, 2018
With our hosts at Layog Farm.
Mt. Province Seed School, 2018
Participants are trying to identify various seeds.
Lambunao Seed School, 2019
Harry, Manang Connie, x are sorting seeds.
Kai Farms, 2019
Participants to the seed school.
Cebu Seed School and Teacher Training, 2019
Learning to clean seeds of red amaranth for saving.
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.