Catherine coordinates the seed network in the north of England supporting amateur and professional growers to grow more open pollinated seed for thriving, diverse and resilient food production. She is a co-director and founder of a ‘plot to plate’ community interest company in Teesside, runs the Middlesbrough Farmstart programme and has a background in helping people from diverse and challenged communities create gardens in urban spaces. Catherine is particularly interested in local and heritage varieties and celebrating the stories behind them. When not actively engaged in mud, she enjoys making and crafting, which somehow always ends up back at seeds…