Seed Savers' Film Clip on the Web

27 August 2007
Do you believe that traditional varieties deliver more nutrition, are suited to organic growing and are culturally significant? Then you will want to see our new four minute film clip, "Guardians of the Seed", that celebrates the yummy things in life.

Director, Michel Fanton, filming in Papua New Guinea, September 2006

Community seed bank and "seed mothers" Chinakatte village, north Karnataka, India

In one year we have filmed, in nine countries, the stewards of traditional varieties - marginal farmers, tribals and gardeners. We have recorded their ways of life, innate health, capacity for innovation, vibrancy and dynamism. They live in robust and adaptable cultivated ecologies whose regenerative potential depends on a diversity of cultivated and wild food plants.
You can view the clip on The Seed Savers' Network home page http://www.seedsavers.net or http://www.youtube.com/seedsavers
The clip is a distillation of 130 hours of high definition footage about the original seed savers and has been shot over this last year in these countries:

• Australia

• France

• India

• Italy

• Papua New Guinea

• Solomon Islands

• Spain

• Sri Lanka

• Taiwan