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Seedsavers

Michel and Jude Fanton, directors of Australia's Seed Savers Network, have worked at preserving the biodiversity of our food species for more than 15 years.

Michel and Jude set up the Seed Savers Network while living at Tuntable Falls, one of Australia's first intentional communities. The Network is now housed at the Seed Savers Centre in Byron Bay, on the subtropical North Coast of NSW. The couple wrote the book, the Seed Savers Manual.

The Network provides training in agricultural seed processing and saving at the Byron Bay premises as well as overseas. Staff from overseas aid agencies spend time as interns at the Byron Bay centre where they participate in hands-on training. As consultants to aid and development agencies, Michel and Jude's work takes them all over the world, most recently to Afghanistan in 2003.

Photo was taken for use in a newsletter.