Heritage Fruit Links
Australia - Seed Savers' Network: Helping Gardeners To Become Seed Savers! Seed Savers' Network based in Australia since 1986 has pionnered community seed action and from the models in place has stimulated seed action in 39 countries. It helps establish Local Seed Networks to save and exchange thousands of plants varieties that would otherwise run out. You can find more than ninety Local Seed Networks around Australia and many more around the world.
The Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria
History:
In 1848 John Pascoe Fawkner convened a public meeting at the Queen’s Head Hotel to elect a committee and formally institute the Victorian Horticultural Society. In October 1885 the Society was granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria and became the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria (RHSV).
For over 100 years the RHSV existed as an autonomous society for those who appreciated horticulture at both an amateur and professional level. Monthly meetings were held as were seasonal shows at which members could display their flowers, plants and fruit to the general public.
The Society standardised general judging and conducted horticultural judge training schools within the State.
Many horticultural organisations, garden clubs and specialist societies throughout Victoria and Interstate were affiliated with the RHSV.
Today the Society continues to fulfil the needs of home gardeners, specialist growers and a variety of horticultural clubs and related organisations.
Italy - The Lost Pears: She doesn't exactly look like Indiana Jones, but after a brief conversation with Isabella Dalla Ragione about her passion for 'arboreal archaeology', she certainly starts to sound like him. Only it is not lost biblical artifacts that she scours the Italian countryside for - it's lost fruit. Isabella and her seventy-year-old father identify and then try to recover old varieties of fruit that are no longer available in the Italian town markets . Rescuing plants by visiting abandoned properties, parish gardens, monasteries and cloisters, the Ragiones provide a safe home for these rare fruit trees saving them from possible extinction.
France - Croqueurs de Pommes: The term literally means 'Apple Crunchers', and they are a well-known group in France, dedicated to heritage apples. You don't read French? Type the URL into Google Translate and let robo-translators do the job for you.
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ABN: 39 201 357 743 P.O. Box 853 Glen Waverley,
VIC 3150 Australia
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