11th February - Toby Hogkin - Save Our Seeds! Heritage Seeds and Corporate Power – North Merchiston Community Venue

Toby Hodgkin worked as a plant breeder at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (now James Hutton) and then as an international crop genetic resources conservation expert based in Rome at Bioversity International where he was Principal Scientist and Director of International Collaboration. He has worked with researchers, farmers and communities around the world on the conservation and use of traditional crop varieties and landraces. Now retired and based in Edinburgh he does a bit of vegetable gardening and seed saving at the Leith Community Croft and works with the Scottish Seed Hub on improving the supply of seeds of open pollinated vegetable varieties in Scotland.