Plant-based practice includes art/craft, medicine and spiritual tradition that generate from a seed. The FSB is a “bank of knowledge”– not unlike a literal seed bank – that locates, interprets, preserves and celebrates plants and the practices germinating from them. Historically women have created and passed down these traditions central to their cultural identity and sovereignty. This work is now at risk of being lost due to climate crises and gender violence. Through gardens, publications, exhibitions, conversations, an open-source archive and DIY kits, the Feminist Seed Bank amplifies and monumentalizes this vital information before it is too late.

FSB is an internationally-panoramic network of collaborators. Examples include: Bosnian flax and hemp textiles; Indigenous American grass basket weavings; Yoruba adire indigo-dyed cloth with resist-dye design technique; Samoan fig bark cloth; Georgian felted rugs depicting ancient plant talismans; Wiccan herb-based abortifacients; Brazilian Candomble herb-based cleansing rituals; and Central Asian steppe grass mats. Check out this new interactive map that is recording, interpreting, sharing and saving the interviews and practices contributed by our partners!