🌱 Thurayya: Growing seeds for our land and our people 🌱

A seed saving initiative rooted in Palestinian resilience and collective care

What is Thurayya?
Thurayya is a community-led seed saving initiative to preserve, grow, and share heirloom seeds from Palestine. We believe that seeds are more than just the beginning of food — they carry stories, memory, resistance, and the future of our collective nourishment.

At a time when our people and our lands are going through one of the most devastating periods in our collective history and memory, we work alongside community to reconnect to one another and fortify our relationships with the land and each other. This work is about self-determination, healing and making a promise to our future generations that we are still here.

Why Seeds from Palestine?
Palestinian seeds carry generations of knowledge, resiliency, and connection to the land. In the face of occupation, genocide, and ecological destruction, these seeds — like our people — have endured and will continue to endure. They are a symbol of our presence and connection to our land.

We are growing these seeds in diaspora, not as a replacement for our homeland, but as a way to continue being in connection to and relationship with her.

How We Work

• 🌾 We grow and save heirloom Palestinian seeds with care and intention
  
  
• 🤝 We collaborate with local growers, elders, and land stewards who share our values
  
  
• 🌍 We host workshops, seed sharing events, and volunteer days to root community in our land-based traditions
  
  
• 📚 We document and share the knowledge held in these seeds — culinary, agricultural, and spiritual
  
  
• We dream of a future where land is shared, liberated, and alive with our histories
  
  

Why We Need Your Support
Your contributions will directly fund:

• Seeds and soil — the materials we need to grow
  
  
• Tools, a land base, infrastructure, and community growing spaces
  
  
• Fair compensation for community collaborators and knowledge holders
  
  
• Educational programming and cultural events
  
  
• Packaging and distribution for seed sharing efforts
  
  

This is slow, tender, and long-term work. But it’s urgent. Each seed saved is an act of resistance. Each garden planted is a story passed on.

🌟 Join Us

This is more than a fundraiser. It’s an invitation to become part of a growing movement that holds land, life, and liberation at the center.

If you believe in the power of land-based memory, food sovereignty, and a free Palestine — we ask you to give what you can, share widely, and plant with us.

With care and commitment,
The Thurayya Team