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Seed sharing in California took a major step forward on Friday when Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Seed Exchange Democracy Act, an amendment to the California Seed Law. It’s the latest victory in a global movement to support and protect seed sharing and saving.
Since the crackdown on seed libraries by some U.S. states last year, organizers (including Shareable) around the country have been working to protect seed sharing. In both Minnesota and Nebraska, bills that specifically exempt non-commercial seed sharing from commercial seed laws were recently signed into law.
Want to start a campaign to save seed sharing in your town? We’ve put together the following guide to help you do just that.
Local regulators in the US are starting to apply laws meant for big, corporate seed producers to the approximately 300 community seed libraries in the US. Unless regulators are stopped soon, these seed libraries may be quickly regulated out of existence. State regulators are copying one another and, unfortunately, this trend is gaining momentum.
Seed activists can put a mark in the win column. Recently, the city council in Duluth, Minnesota passed a resolution supporting seed saving and sharing in the city (see video below of the council meeting).
