Organic and seed-saving seeds, community gardens, native plants and wildlife-friendly gardening.
Insects and birds come back quickly to a garden with a corner of wild flowers, a hedge left to grow and no pesticides. Open-pollinated organic seeds can be saved from your own plants and sown again the next year.
Bingenheimer Saatgut is a German seed company that sells only open-pollinated, organically grown seed of vegetables, herbs and flowers, to home gardeners and market gardeners. Plants from this seed…
Alternative to seeds from agrochemical groups, bred for industrial farming and sold as hybrids
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ARCHE NOAH is an Austrian association that preserves old and rare varieties of vegetables, fruit and grain, and sells organic seeds and plants of them so that gardeners can grow them and save their…
Alternative to hybrid seeds from the big seed groups that can’t be saved and resown
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Garden Organic is a British charity for organic gardening, and its Heritage Seed Library keeps more than 800 rare and old vegetable varieties alive by sending their seed to members each year.
Alternative to garden-centre seed packets of a few commercial varieties
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Refuges LPO is the scheme of the French bird protection league LPO for turning a garden, a balcony, a school or a company site into a refuge for wildlife, by signing a charter and following its…
Alternative to tidy lawns, pesticides and garden-centre landscaping
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Kokopelli is a French association that sells organic and biodynamic seeds of open-pollinated varieties: more than 2,000 varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers, many of them old varieties no…
Alternative to F1 hybrid seeds from large seed companies, which cannot be saved and resown
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Dreschflegel is a German group of small organic farms that grow, breed and sell open-pollinated seed of more than 800 vegetables, herbs and flowers, without hybrids or genetic engineering.
Alternative to hybrid vegetable seeds that must be bought again every year
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Pl@ntNet is a free app and website that names a plant from a photo of its flower, leaf, fruit or bark. It was built by French public research institutes, and every confirmed photo feeds a public…
Alternative to commercial plant identification apps with subscriptions
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Incredible Edible is a movement of local groups that grow vegetables, fruit and herbs in public places, for anyone to pick for free. It started in Todmorden, in northern England, in 2008.
Alternative to buying every vegetable at the supermarket and to ornamental-only public planting
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The Natural Death Centre is a British charity that gives free, impartial advice on natural burial, do-it-yourself and environmentally friendly funerals, and on consumer rights when arranging a…
Alternative to conventional funeral packages
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