{"id":446,"date":"2010-03-09T21:06:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/?p=446"},"modified":"2010-03-09T21:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:06:39","slug":"heritage-seed-makes-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/2010\/03\/heritage-seed-makes-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Seed Makes Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in <a title=\"Horticulture week website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hortweek.com\/news\/987502\/Heritage-seed-rules-relaxed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horticulture Week<\/a> points to changes that may lead to relaxation of the heritage seed rules.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/seedlings70.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-127\" title=\"seedlings70\" src=\"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/seedlings70.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a>EU rules currently state that if a variety is not on a national list, you can&#8217;t sell it.\u00a0 This list was set up with the commercial seed sector in mind but the amateur gardener became needlessly inconvenienced by this legislation. A seed variety costs around \u00a31,500 to register at present.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage, unregistered varieties are only able to be grown via seed swapping amongst enthusiasts and the varieties rely heavily on <a title=\"HSL Seed Guardians\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenorganic.org.uk\/hsl\/guardians.php\" target=\"_blank\">Seed Guardians<\/a> who grow the plants specifically for their seed to preserve the variety and allow a selection of seed to be available for those interested.<\/p>\n<p>Revived varieties of tomatoes, cabbages and lettuces could come onto the market in two or three years if\u00a0 the Food and Environment Research Agency <a title=\"Food and Environment Research Agency website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fera.defra.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">(FERA)<\/a> relaxes the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Some vegetable varieties are grown for outstanding flavour or perfomance in a particular environment.\u00a0 These may soon be available again with gardener&#8217;s being able to grow varieties that their parents or grandparents favoured.<\/p>\n<p>Read to full article in <a title=\"Horticulture week website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hortweek.com\/news\/987502\/Heritage-seed-rules-relaxed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Horticulture Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A few <a title=\"Heritage seed and plant suppliers\" href=\"http:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/category\/suppliers\/\" target=\"_blank\">specialist suppliers <\/a>who offer heritage seed and plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in Horticulture Week points to changes that may lead to relaxation of the heritage seed rules. EU rules currently state that if a variety is not on a national list, you can&#8217;t sell it.\u00a0 This list was set up with the commercial seed sector in mind but the amateur gardener became needlessly inconvenienced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[777],"tags":[915,742,913,865,46,920,918,887,904,916,897,411,923,906,922,917,921,924,888,919],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-vegetables-fruit-and-veg","tag-amateur-gardener","tag-cabbages","tag-commercial-seed","tag-enthusiasts","tag-flavour","tag-grandparents","tag-guardians","tag-heritage-seed","tag-horticulture-week","tag-legislation","tag-lettuces","tag-parents","tag-register","tag-relaxation","tag-seed-plants","tag-seed-variety","tag-specialist-suppliers","tag-swapping","tag-varieties-of-tomatoes","tag-vegetable-varieties","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/author\/mogsy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldvarieties.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}