Vital Seeds

Fred Groom and Ronja Schlumberger run Vital Seeds, a small-scale, organic seed producer in Devon, UK. They are preserving edible plant varieties, working for food and seed sovereignty and producing food crops varieties adapted to the UK climate. In the last 100 years, we have lost 90% of the diversity in our food crops globally, mainly due to the industrialisation of the food system and widespread use of proprietary F1 hybrid varieties. They are fighting against this by providing open-pollinated seeds to gardeners and growers across the UK.