Meet our Seed Keepers

Our Seed Keepers
Here is the most important part of HOOGA which we value the most, yes! Our SEED KEEPERS (Vidhaiyaali). Seeds provided through HOOGA are majorly grown by our members who come from diverse backgrounds from different states of India with most of them being small farmers, Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) and home gardeners who are very keen about saving native heirloom seeds which are getting endangered. We are together foraging for the extinct varieties to revive what is lost and to protect what might get lost in our race towards our businesses. Most of our seed keepers find this as a great opportunity to showcase the biodiversity, effort put into saving seeds, and this becomes an additional alternate income stream to support them sustain their efforts. Our collective works with more than 30 seed keepers from different locations across India who are dedicated to seed sovereignty, indigenous food production and regenerative agriculture. HOOGA also works on alternate livelihood creation for those from the most vulnerable and marginalised communities through seed keeping. Every pack of seed provided from us is the diligent work and effort of our associated seed keepers mentioned below and the whole HOOGA team, who are striving hard to conserve, multiply and efficiently share native heirloom seeds with interested food growing enthusiasts.

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