Asia

India

• Seed Satyagraha "Bija Satyagraha-Defending Farmers Seed Freedom Since 1991, when the Dunkel Draft Text of the WTO agreement were leaked Navdanya organised awareness campaigns and rallies to alert farmers across the country about the emerging seed monopoly through patents. Navdanya spearheaded the movement to protect the farmers rights to biodiversity, rights of seed saving and seed exchange. We have been organizing several seminars, yatras, signature campaigns to create awareness amongst the farmers and also to sensitize the policy makers and politicians of the country to defend seed freedom. We started organizing farmers through the Bija Satyagraha Movement to keep seed in farmer’s hands and refused to cooperate with unjust IPR and seed laws that make seed a corporate monopoly and seed saving and seed sharing a crime. In 1993, half a million farmers participated in a historic Bija Satyagraha rally at Bangalore’s Cuban’s Park. This was the first international protest against WTO Bija Satyagraha is

  •  a grass-roots campaign on patent issues,

  •  an assertion to people’s rights to biodiversity and

  •  a determination not to co-operate with IPR systems that make seed saving and seed exchange a crime."

North America

USA

• Food Not Lawns "Welcome to the official site for the international movement of folks who want to grow Food Not Lawns!
  
  Using friendship-based community organizing and principles of permaculture, gift economy, and mutual aid, Food Not Lawns has been turning yards into gardens and neighborhoods into communities since 1999, when we were conceived by the Food Not Bombs family in Eugene, Oregon. For more than twenty years small, self-organized groups of grassroots gardeners have been organizing local seed swaps, joining together for garden work parties, and making lots of friends while learning more about the simple act of growing food can radically improve your home, your community, and your life."

• Native Seeds/SEARCH "seeks to find, protect and preserve the seeds of the people of the Greater Southwest so that these arid adapted crops may benefit all peoples and nourish a changing world."

• Seed Saver's Exchange "Since 1975, we have grown, saved, and shared heirloom seeds and led a movement to protect biodiversity and preserve heirloom varieties. At the heart of our organization is a seed bank that houses a collection of 20,000+ rare, open-pollinated varieties. With gardeners like you, we can get these seeds where they belong—in gardens and on tables everywhere, for generations to come."

Iowa

• Seed Savers Exchange: Find & Share Seeds "We’re a community of gardeners and seed stewards, sharing and swapping rare seeds you might not find anywhere else. The Exchange works to keep biodiversity strong and garden traditions thriving." You can search by category: vegetables; fruits, berries & nuts grains; herbs & spices, flowers; and miscellaneous, but you need to sign up/log in to offer or request seeds.

Minnesota

• Urban Roots Hosts seed sharing events

Oregon

• Food Not Lawns "Welcome to the official site for the international movement of folks who want to grow Food Not Lawns!
  
  Using friendship-based community organizing and principles of permaculture, gift economy, and mutual aid, Food Not Lawns has been turning yards into gardens and neighborhoods into communities since 1999, when we were conceived by the Food Not Bombs family in Eugene, Oregon. For more than twenty years small, self-organized groups of grassroots gardeners have been organizing local seed swaps, joining together for garden work parties, and making lots of friends while learning more about the simple act of growing food can radically improve your home, your community, and your life."

• Native Plant Swap Allows Portland area folks to access free native plants from the gardens and yards of other community members.

Texas

• Native Plant Society of Houston

• Sow.Grow.ReapEat Program "Seed Library The El Paso Public Libraries are now seed libraries! Seed libraries are places that share or lend seeds. Each library has a collection of non-genetically modified fruit, vegetable, and herb seeds available for patrons to start their own edible gardens. “Check-out” up to 5 seed packets per season with your library card. The seeds are yours to keep (no late or lost fees!), but once you are a successful gardener, let some of your healthiest plants “go to seed.” Harvest the seed, save some for yourself, and donate some to the public library to keep our collections stocked."

Virginia

• Southern Exposure Seed Exchange "We encourage cooperative self-reliance in agriculture. We promote and participate in seed saving and exchange, ecological agriculture, reducing energy use, providing locally adapted varieties, and regional food production. To further these aims, Southern Exposure offers: heirloom varieties to conserve and distribute rare and endangered varieties; open-pollinated varieties to encourage seed saving and exchange among gardeners; disease- and insect-tolerant varieties to reduce pesticide use; and varieties for local and small-scale growers to encourage regional food production."

Resources & Guides

• How to Host a Seed Swap "Seed swaps are a rewarding way to build community and share information about gardening, plant varieties, and each others’ projects. Most seed swaps happen in late fall, winter or early spring, when seed crops have been harvested and when it’s not too late to plant the seeds for the following year."

North America

USA

• Direct Native Plants: Find Your Growing Zone 

Organizations

South America

Columbia

• Asociación Jardín Botánico Las Delicias "Ɵsik Waramik purƟ tapchik “Escuela Viva de la Naturaleza”"