https://www.cca-glasgow.com/projects/glasgow-seed-library

Glasgow Seed Library, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow (2026)

12/06/2025

🥬 Diversity is resilience!

This year is working with to learn how to grow and adapt seed successfully in community.

We’re growing genetically diverse ‘flocks’ of broad bean and ultracross collards as part of a collaborative crowdbreeding project with . By encouraging crops to cross pollinate freely, plants can rapidly adapt to new conditions and changes in climate.

Join our open plot day to find out more about adaptation agriculture, landrace seeds, promiscuous pollination and why these may be crucial for future food sovereignty.

🧑‍🌾 Intro to Adaptation Agriculture
📅 Sat 28 June, 11am-2pm
📍 Southwestern Allotments
📧 Email [email protected] to book a free place

Most importantly, get your hands in the soil, and help us cultivate the seed crops! Activities may include: preparing beds, planting out, wedding, mulching and netting.

Bring gardening gloves if you have them, a bottle of water, some snacks or lunch with you for an impromptu picnic (weather dependent!)

~ Accessibility

Southwestern Allotments has a range of mostly level but uneven path surfaces which are gravel, mat and grass. There is a wheelchair accessible composting toilet for all to use. Please email [email protected] if you have limited mobility or other access needs and would like to be involved.

~ Contributors

is a co-operative of local growers, formed in 2021 to address the lack of adequate allotment provision in Glasgow. They cultivate a community plot at Southwestern Allotments and advocate for folk to have access to green space for growing all over the city.

’s Food & Climate Action project aims to work alongside local communities to co-create a more resilient food system that is fairer and kinder to people and the planet. This project is part of their movement building work, called ‘The Life Cycle of Food’.

’s Seed Sovereignty Crowd Breeding project is a participatory plant breeding project, working together to create a viable alternative to the industrial seed system. The focus is to collectively create new evolutionary populations of genetically diverse crops.

11/06/2025

A message from Glasgow Seed Library 🫒

04/06/2025

🫘 Look! I left some seeds in your pocket

What connects seeds in Morocco, Scotland, and Greece? And how do struggles for land and water connect us?

Join a gathering and conversation with artist & farmer . Hear experiences from their recent residency, hosted by .

📅 Sat 14 June, 7pm
📍
♿ Wheelchair accessible
🎟️ £0/2/5/10/15/20 sliding scale
🔗 Tickets via CCA, link in bio

Hold seeds in your hands, listen to the voices of those who have been saving them and reflect on how we might not only preserve these traditions, but re-imagine them as acts of resistance against forces like modernisation, coloniality, and monocultures.

With a focus on journeys through the North and South of Morocco, this will be an introduction to some of the people Alkmini was in conversation with and their important work.

We will speak about remembering and forgetting, about seed saving, water scarcity, gardeners and their gardens, farmers and their fields.

~ About the event

This conversation is the second half of a two-part event, which begins with the screening of Amussu (5 - 6:45pm) in the Cinema. Your ticket will grant access to both parts of the event, as well as the sharing of Moroccan food between 6:45 – 7:15pm in Common Ground.

This event is in connection to 's collaboration with as they develop a new seed project.

We are raising funds for , whose seed library, Tin’Amoud, is the first one in their region, a space for safeguarding local heirlooms and perpetuating the tradition of bartering and sharing unique seeds adapted to dry and semi-dry local conditions.

Tickets are on a sliding scale, and free for refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants from any country. Please email [email protected] to book a free Solidarity Ticket. You do not need to tell us your circumstances.

Alkmini has worked as a cook, art teacher, community gardener, beekeeper, farmer and from 2021-23, seed librarian at . They are a lover of slugs and snails, and use their playful sense of storytelling in collaborations, performances and sculptural works.

23/05/2025

🌾 "When we harvest, we dream of sharing it with you. Without your freedom, we know our fruits are seedless."

We join our comrades at in calling for an end to the siege and starvation of Gaza, a humanitarian convoy, the suspension of arms sales to Israel, and a liberated Palestine, in our lifetime.

Landworkers, growers, farmers and seedsavers can sign the open letter now by visiting this link in our bio:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBGt27Io12IV0gBBQO10cR9kRQqOSYrS_SQdcoGLNCmDyNeQ/viewform

From Glasgow to Gaza with love.

22/05/2025

💦 Water, seeds, song, life 🌳

Imider, Southeastern Morocco. A rapacious silver mine has siphoned water from local aquifers for decades, drying out the almond groves belonging to an Amazigh community.

Fearing their fragile oasis might disappear and their livelihoods destroyed, the villagers peacefully rebelled in 2011 and shut down a major water pipeline heading towards the mine.

Eight years later, they continue to resist in a protest camp with the little means they have — songs, weekly assemblies, a flimsy camera, a film festival and endless ingenuity.

📽️ Amussu
📅 Sat 14 June, 5pm
📍 CCA Cinema
♿ Wheelchair accessible
💬 Descriptive subtitles
🎟️ £0/2/5/10/15/20 sliding scale
🔗 Tickets via CCA, link in bio

~About the event

The film will be followed by the sharing of Moroccan food and a conversation with , Look! I left some seeds in your pocket.

This screening is presented in collaboration with through their community film clubs initiative. It is inspired by 's residency and collaboration with as they develop a new seed project in Tangier.

We are raising funds for , whose seed library, Tin’Amoud, is the first one in their region, a space for safeguarding local heirlooms and perpetuating the tradition of bartering and sharing unique seeds adapted to dry and semi-dry local conditions.

Tickets are on a sliding scale, and free for refugees, asylum seekers and forced migrants from any country. If this is you, please email [email protected] to book a free Solidarity Ticket. You do not need to tell us your circumstances.

~About the filmmaker

Nadir Bouhmouch is a storyteller, researcher and cultural worker based in Marrakech. He creates poetic political cinema, photo essays, articles and short stories. The focus of his work is cultural decolonisation, agriculture, ecological struggles and land rights amongst Amazigh communities.

30/04/2025

🙌 We're honoured to be joined by researcher and activist Manal Shqair at this Saturday's Seed Songs for Palestine!

Following the film screening , Manal will speak with us about indigenous food sovereignty, what she has learned about resistance from semi-nomadic farmers in Masafer Yatta, and ways we can show up in solidarity with Palestine today.

Manal Shqair is a Palestinian climate activist and researcher. Currently, she is doing her PhD in sociology at Queen Margaret University, Scotland, where she also teaches undergraduate courses. Her research examines the role of Palestinian semi-nomadic women in resisting Israeli settler colonial dispossession.

🔗 Ticket link in bio

16/04/2025

🇵🇸 Explore how seeds connect with land, culture and indigenous resilience 🌱

Join an evening of short films, song sharing and sowing solidarity with Palestinian growers and farmers.

Organised by with friends, raising funds for Revive Gaza's Farmland.

🗓️ Sat 3 May, 5-8pm
📍
🎫 £5/10/15/20/25 donation
🕊 Free/solidarity places available
🔗 https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/seed-songs-for-palestine (link in bio)
♿ Wheelchair accessible

~About the event

Delve into the significance of seeds, plant life, and relations with land as forms of resistance, in a short film programme which interrogates the dynamics of freedom and survival in the face of environmental and colonial oppression.

Hear from Manal Shqair, Palestinian activist and researcher of Palestinian women's land-based resistance to Israel's environmental colonialism. Learn about practices of eco-sumud: the use of indigenous knowledge, cultural values, tactics and tools to fight back against dispossession and the unsustainable management of land and its resources.

The event will include a half-time comfort break with a sharing of songs for peace and justice by Protest in Harmony Glasgow, seeds from the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, and Palestinian breads and sweets created by a local baker.

Seed Songs for Palestine highlights the vital role of seed sovereignty in asserting Indigenous rights and preserving cultural heritage. While Israel continues a relentless campaign of ecocide and genocide of the Palestinian people and their land, this is an urgent call for growers and seedsavers in Glasgow to gather and act in solidarity.

The film programme is curated by and .

~Ticketing

We are raising funds for Revive Gaza's Farmland, a project of . Please donate as much as you are able to.

This event is free for people of Palestinian or Lebanese heritage, as well as refugees, asylum seekers & forced migrants from any country. If this is you, please email [email protected] to book a free Solidarity Ticket. You do not need to tell us your circumstances.

28/03/2025

📢 Call for Submissions! 🫐

We are mulching all the seeds of knowledge that surfaced in our recent Dormancy, Reseeding, Resistance study group!

If our themes spoke to you, please send us your one-liners to be featured in A Phytocrip Manifesto!

~About the publication

Published by , A Phytocrip Manifesto seeks to collectively define what "phytocrip" might mean for each of us and what it might do.

Proposed by in conversation with , phytocrip is our searchlight concept - attracted to fleeting instances and established practices of resistance against the disabling/cripping effects of the normative world.

Specifically, phytocrip speaks to subversive kinships with seeds, plants, and broader phytoecologies that inform our co-natured lives.

Inspired by Johanna Hedva’s () 'Sick Woman Theory', phytocrip embodies a potential site of mobilisation and affiliation around the politico-material fact that the world is disabling.

~ Call for submissions

Your one-liner can be biographic, poetic, or speculative. It can be angry or/and dreamy. Char encourages you to twist grammar norms as you brew yours or write in any language that helps you sense the rigour of phytocrip.

WHAT? A one-liner, 1-100 words
WHEN? By April 3rd
HOW TO SUBMIT? Drop an email to [email protected] (and any questions if they sprout)

All contributors will receive a copy of the publication via mail and you are warmly welcome to join our launches — the first one will happen at the luminous on May 28th, 2025.

Dormancy Reseeding Resistance is supported by: , , and .

25/03/2025

💫 Seeds and cycles 💫

A few pics from our first session of Under the New Moon with seedsaver and astrologist !

We discussed the practices and (dodgy) politics of biodynamic gardening, and some indigenous practices which likely informed it.

Thanks to everyone who shared their planetary growing experiences and for hosting us.

A few spaces left on our next session on Sat 29 Mar, 2-3:30pm, taking place at .

We'll be speaking more about planetary cycles and seeds as divination. You don't need to have attended the first session, although all will connect.

Send an email to [email protected] to book a spot!

22/03/2025

Paws in seeds!

Thanks for having us as part of your Spring Equinox celebration today ☀️

Lots of lovely seed chats, clay crafting and songs about grief and migrating birds, and trees budding and blooming 🌸

Remember you can browse our full library of seeds until April: Tue-Sat, 12:30-3pm 🔎

And our next pop-up seed swap will be at , this coming Saturday 29th March, 12-2pm 💦

03/02/2025

✏️ Mark the start of the growing season 🌱

Join a relaxed gathering to wake the seeds and prepare for the year ahead.

🗓️ Sat 15 Feb, 11am-2pm
📍 The Boilerhouse,
🕊 Free, drop-in, all welcome
♿ Wheelchair accessible
📧 Let us know you're coming by DM or email [email protected]

Spend time together to:

sort, pack, stamp and browse new seed varieties in the library

help to germination test seeds saved in our last growing season

get creative by drawing seeds with the help of hand lenses and design a future seed packet

browse our collection of books and pamphlets around seed ecologies, gardening, herbalism, permaculture, food sovereignty and land justice

explore the beautiful surrounds of The Hidden Gardens

All are welcome to stop by, whether you're a regular seed borrower or just curious to find out more.

The library will be open for anyone to browse and select seeds, and it’s a good opportunity to discuss your 2025 growing plans with seed librarians Rowan and Meg.

We will have hot drinks, vegan soup and light refreshments available. Let us know if you're coming and if you have any dietary restrictions by emailing [email protected].

Accessibility

The Gardens are fully wheelchair accessible at both entrances from Pollokshaws Road and through Tramway. There are wide stone paths around The Gardens, and ramps to take you into the Medicinal Courtyard and Boilerhouse.

Image

A handmade drawing of a dried sunflower head on a yellow background. Created by Lily Lorvato in our Being with Seeds workshop, 2023.

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