The Regenerative Garden: Seed Saving

Seeds are more than just the start of a plant, they hold the power of resilience, biodiversity, and food sovereignty. In this workshop, you'll learn the fundamentals of seed saving as both a practical gardening skill and a movement for sustainability. Discover how to select, grow, and harvest seeds to ensure strong, healthy plants for future seasons while reducing reliance on commercial seed suppliers.

Through hands-on activities, we’ll explore sowing a biennial crop (lettuce) and an overwintering legume (broad bean) to save seeds for next year. We’ll also take a deep dive into plant, seed, and flower anatomy, helping you identify key structures for successful seed collection. Plus, we’ll discuss the importance of seed sovereignty, exploring where our seeds come from and how saving your own contributes to climate resilience and food security.

By the end of the session, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to start saving seeds for yourself and your community, ensuring a diverse, locally adapted seed supply for the future.

This is the 4th session of the OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series, a hands-on journey into the principles and practices of sustainable, regenerative gardening.

Top Skills You’ll Gain:

• Seed Saving for Yourself & Your Community.

• Understanding Plant & Flower Anatomy

• Engaging in Seed Sovereignty

Join us in preserving the future—one seed at a time!

The Regenerative Garden

Welcome to the OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series, a hands-on journey into the principles and practices of sustainable, regenerative gardening.

Over five engaging sessions, our gardening team will guide you through practical techniques, ecological insights, and seasonal inspirations to help you grow food and cultivate biodiversity in harmony with nature.

Step into our gardens to explore the deep connections between soil, plants, and ecosystems. We’ll share the knowledge we’ve gathered at OmVed—through tending the land, saving seeds, and working with nature—while creating space to learn from each other’s experiences.

Whether you join the full course or book for a single session, you'll gain valuable skills to build your own regenerative garden. Our garden and kitchen sessions are thoughtfully designed to complement each other through both topic and seasonality, yet each session also stands strong on its own.

The OmVed Gardens Regenerative Garden series is created and led by members of the OmVed Gardening team including Vicky Chown, Head of Urban Growing, John Gaffney, Landscape Gardener, Tej Rawal, Assistant Food Grower, Daniel Connor, Seed Saving Network Coordinator and Lysson Marchesault, Assistant Landscape Gardener.

About the session’s host:

Daniel is a food heritage and seed conservation specialist with a background in community gardening and informal education. Formerly with the Irish Seed Savers Association, he champions food sovereignty, diversity, and resilience. At OmVed Gardens, he stewards heirloom crops and expands the Seed Saving Network, fostering connections through growing and sharing seeds

About OmVed Gardens:

OmVed Gardens is a garden, exhibition, events, and learning space in North London dedicated to exploring the connections between food, ecology and creativity for health and climate resilience. We are on a mission to inspire ecological awareness and action, and deepen our understanding of interconnectedness with the natural world.

As a registered Community Interest Company, all our activities prioritise social and ecological objectives. Whether collaborating with chefs, creatives, gardeners, or schools, OmVed Gardens is a hub for education, connection, and action. We aim to inspire individuals and communities to reimagine their role in building a healthier, more resilient world.

We work to increase biodiversity - of species, seeds, food systems, and participation, through regenerative gardening, seed saving, habitat creation, and ecological education. Our space serves as a living example of how urban areas can be transformed into thriving ecosystems that support both human and non-human communities.

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Subsidised Tickets:

We have a few reserved tickets at a subsidised rate. If this workshop is not monetarily accessible, please write to us at events@omvedgardens.com to avail yourself of a subsidised ticket rate. Subject to availability.

Refund Policy: Tickets are non-refundable, except in cases where a waiting list exists for the session. If the event is sold out, a refund may be considered if requested up to 10 days prior to the session date. Please write to us for any refund inquiries at events@omvedgardens.com.