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Aotearoa New Zealand: Seed Savers (SSANZ) - Established to facilitate and share information and seeds between regional seed saving groups which maintain and strengthen the agricultural biodiversity of open pollinated, non-genetically engineered plant varieties in New Zealand
USA: Eastern Native Seed Conservancy - Information about collecting and preserving cultivated food plants, endemic or acclimatised to Massachusetts and New England. Conservation and regional exchange by seed savers (CRESS), native seeds and other projects described.
Worldwide: Seed Exchanges - Swapping Seeds with Like Minded Gardeners - About.com collection of sites on seed saving. Links to several key seed swap resources.
Mexico / USA: Native Seeds/SEARCH - Site records work of NS/S to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwestern and northwest Mexico. Project reports, seeds for sharing and links included.
Worldwide: International Seed Saving Institute - Free online seed saving instructions. ISSI is dedicated to seed-saving education and self-reliance for peoples world-wide. Also offers O.P. seeds.
Canada: Seeds of Diversity - Canada's Heritage Seed Program - a non-profit group of gardeners who save seeds from rare and unusual garden plants for the purpose of preserving varieties in a living gene bank
Ireland: Irish Seed Savers Association - A voluntary organisation dedicated to the location and preservation of traditional varieties of grains, fruits and vegetables. Site has current seed lists and project information.
Australia: The Seed Savers Network - Promoting and organising the preservation, free distribution and exchange of open-pollinated seeds.
USA: Seed Savers Exchange - SSE is saving heirloom garden seeds from extinction that gardeners and farmers brought to North America when their families immigrated, as well as traditional varieties grown by Native Americans, Mennonites and Amish. Information, links and catalogues on website.
France: Kokopelli Seed Foundation - Protects planetary biodiversity and production of organic seeds. Mission, history, and related links.

Wikipedia Articles

Seed Savers Exchange - Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving various heirloom plant varieties. It collects lists of seeds from its members and publishes their contact information in catalogues, which are distributed to those members so they may request seeds from each other.
Kent Whealy - Kent Whealy is co-founder, with his ex-wife Diane Whealy, of the Seed Savers Exchange, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the seed lines of heirloom plants and to the sharing of such seeds both through sales and through facilitating exchanges among member gardeners. The organization works to maintain genetic diversity in both food crops and ornamental plants.