Monthly Archives: March 2018

The Treasure of Ardre – Heritage grains and seed sovereignty in Sweden

It became known as “the Treasure of Ardre”. The year was 1965, and a group from the Swedish agricultural society were out hiking on the island of Gotland, off the Swedish coast. They had reached Kaupungs Gård, the farm of Ragnar Pettersson, a recently deceased and by-all-accounts somewhat eccentric local farmer who had resisted the …