§ About — Our Purpose

Biodiversity protection, nature restoration and seed preservation — with community seed banks.

We are living in a once-in-a-civilization moment, with profound consequences for the fabric of life on earth. Rebuilding food security by preserving, protecting and proliferating native seed systems is of vital importance.

SeedKeepers was established to support remote communities in establishing their own native seed banks and biodiversity registration — and to build the biological infrastructure behind Indigenous-led ecological restoration across Australia.

Country in the hand. Seed is life.

William Martin — Founder.

§ Decades of Experience

Our founder, William Martin, has been supporting seed banks and seed production since 2002.

SeedKeepers was founded to address the core challenges of our times — and offers an empowering horticultural movement, one that views management of Traditional Cultural Knowledge as social justice.

Native plant species around the world are disappearing every day due to habitat loss, climate change, severe wildfire seasons and extreme weather events. As these plant populations are lost, so too are the ecosystem services they provide — and the loss threatens the Traditional communities which rely on these varieties for food, medicines and cultural use.

Community seed banks have emerged as a vital community resource — not only for food and ecological security, but for the economic, political and social empowerment of communities.