For generations, food was grown, saved and shared, with seeds passed down and communities resilient. But today our food system looks very different, built on uniformity, dependent on chemicals and driven by scale and profit. Where fields stretch for miles, identical, controlled and fragile diversity has been replaced with sameness, resilience with dependency. Soil is losing life, biodiversity is disappearing. And what we grow shapes what we eat, and what we eat shapes our health. We've created a system that works, but at a cost to the land, to nature and to ourselves. And the further we go, the more we lose what once sustained us. But it doesn't have to be this way. Your donation will contribute to helping us build a seed network that starts in Oxfordshire and reaches across the globe. And here is what your money will be used for. A full historic survey of Rousham and Haythrop Park, followed by cataloguing every plant, quantifying every seed and assessing each species. Regional potential Garden organic. Then work directly with each garden's appointed seed guardian, teaching skills that were commonplace 200 years ago and are now almost lost. Public training days open that knowledge further, not just to gardeners, to anyone in Oxfordshire who wants to learn. And then the Seed Swap, a community event that brings gardens, guardians and the wider public together to mark the moment this Valley's botanical heritage stops being at risk and starts being actively protected. But this was never only about Oxfordshire. The seed varieties in these gardens represent centuries of knowledge that belongs to the world as climate change reshapes what can grow, and where that genetic diversity becomes one of the most valuable resources on the planet. What starts in the Glen Valley connects to national seed networks, international conservation efforts, and communities facing the same challenges of biodiversity loss and food insecurity everywhere. The plants here are irreplaceable. The knowledge of how to save their seeds is almost gone. Your support changes that here and far beyond here. I never thought a seed could connect me to someone. 200 years ago, Husk changed that. Husk gives this valley a voice that reaches way beyond Oxfordshire. Hosk gives me a connection to this place I've lived in for 20 years but never really knew. Hosk allows me to connect with people I'd never have met otherwise. Hosk gives me a reason to believe that small, local action genuinely connects to something global.