Reclaim the Seeds is an annual event where the exchange of seeds and information is combined with discussion about political themes and practical workshops in a different region. The goal is to get more people involved in the fight for agricultural biodiversity and robust, sustainable food production. By encouraging the exchange of rare and unusual breeds, the project contributes directly to this.

Reclaim the Seeds (= Let's reclaim the seeds) started as a protest against the new EU seed legislation. There is currently more focus on resistance to crop patents and the threatened introduction of new types of genetic engineering. The program also covers other practical, theoretical and political agriculture-related topics.

The past editions in the Netherlands were successful; the seed fair usually attracted around 1000 participants, mainly active (vegetable) gardeners. The workshops and discussions were also well attended each time. The weekend often results in the creation of permanent local initiatives. The event attracts people with a vegetable garden, professional gardeners, people involved in neighborhood vegetable gardens and activists. A Reclaim the Seeds has also been taking place in Flanders for two years now.

Reclaim the Seeds is organized entirely by volunteers every year . The composition of the group changes. From the first edition, people from the environmental action group ASEED have been involved, supplemented every year with local people from the region where the weekend takes place.

So far, the seed circus has settled in Amsterdam, Den Bosch, Groningen, Driebergen, Wageningen and Nijmegen.

Members of the Flemish seed working group Velt has been a loyal participant in the Reclaim the Seeds weekends in the Netherlands for years, but since 2016 they have also organized their own event in Belgium.