Seed Swap!

If you’re a gardener whose dabbled in growing various edible varieties in your backyard, you’ve probably often wondered what to do with all the extra seeds that you start to accumulate.

Or perhaps the seed packages you purchased were bigger than you thought they would be. Or perhaps you didn’t give any thought to the size of your garden area or have reduced it to save time or water.

Perhaps you’re a seed saver and have collected the seeds from the open-pollinated plants in your own garden and now have more seeds than you had dreamed imaginable. It’s a good problem, and the good news is, there’s a way to keep those seeds from going to waste. Plus you can benefit in a bunch of other ways at the same time.

A Community Seed Swap will be held on the 18^th of February 2017 at the NEW Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre Community Garden. Seeds will be accepted between 2-3 pm with participants taking part in the swap from 3:15 to 4.

This is an event where gardeners come together and swap the seeds from their best plants. This helps to improve local biodiversity. It’s also a time to swap stories, skills and ideas.

The seed swap is a fundamental part of human history. Seeds were one of the first commodities valued and traded. Today, modern gardeners collect and exchange seeds for many reasons ranging from cultivating rare, heirloom varieties to basic thrift. The exchange of seeds perpetuates the natural bio-diversity through the act of giving and sharing these life giving marvels.