Sand Mountain Seed Bank needs your help!

HUNTSVILLE-The Sand Mountain Seed Bank is a critical piece of the Southeast (US) regional seed sovereignty movement. It needs support to transition to a new space that will usher in an even bigger and more people-centric future for the Seed Bank.

The Seed Bank can no longer stay in its current space, and its founders are aging and considering how to pass the project on to the next generation of seed stewards. They see their seed-keeping peers across the Southeast aging, their seed collections at risk because they have no one to pass them on to. The community that the Sand Mountain Seed Bank has helped to nurture over its past nearly 20 years of existence is rallying around it in this transitional time to turn a difficult moment into an opportunity for exciting new growth.

The vision for the Seed Bank’s future includes:

an underground, climate-controlled seed vault

21 acres of land for growing out seeds in proper isolation from one another

educational space for seed-saving workshops as well as horticultural therapy for veterans struggling with PTSD

a seed processing/store, connected to the seed vault

potential growing and living space for mentoring and incubating beginning farmers and seed savers.