Hi all,
although it is not directly related to Free Software, it is very close and I thought the gardeners among you might be interested in a project some friends and me are running: The world wide seed market is heavily dominated by three chemical companies who control the market via artificial property rights and patents. Most of them are hybrid-varieties that are possible to reproduce further. This, to artificially limit the availability of seeds and put farmers around the globe in dependencies to said companies.
Since some years now there is an "Open Source Seeds" movement growing up, whose breeders put their seeds under a copyleft license that protect their seeds and any future breeding from these seeds from being traded under artificial property rights and patents.
To spread the word about it some friends and me created the "Open Source Gardens" to bring homegardeners in contact with concepts of Open Source Seeds and Free Software. Now we are running a campaign in that we send out seeds of different varieties. If you are a gardener, get a kit, join us or help spread the word:
https://opensourcegardens.info/order-seeds.en.html#springflowers
Best regards, Erik