The first Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap

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Alternative Kitchen Garden Seed Swap

On Sunday Pete and I went along to the Sustainability Centre for the Hampshire Green Fair. We took along seeds and plants and ran the first ever Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap :)

The weather wasn’t kind – it didn’t rain, but it was breezy and cold – but that didn’t prevent us having a great time. There was a super turnout, and plenty of people who brought plants and seeds, or came with empty hands and went away with something to plant.

Pete and I are currently decluttering the house and a couple of weeks ago we cleared out a lot of old plant pots that I was no longer using. I washed all of the plastic ones and took them with us on Sunday, and they all found new homes! A lot of them went to a school gardening project, which is nice.

I met friends from Twitter and Facebook and the lovely Dawn from the Raising Seedlings blog, who not only brought seeds and plants to swap, but gave me a jar of her Glutney Chutney too!

I was very restrained and didn’t add too many things to my collection ;) but I couldn’t resist some allium seeds (the big purple ornamental ones) and lamb’s lettuce (which will be useful if the weather doesn’t warm up!) as well as a feverfew plant and a gartenperle tomato. There are also some field beans, and I may snag those to grow them for their flowers, like they do at Le Manoir so that I can keep the broad beans for beans.

There were lots of people who were unfamiliar with the seed swap idea and hadn’t come with anything to exchange, and so we collected a lot of donations. We split the money between the Sustainability Centre and Garden Organic’s Heritage Seed Library, who were kind enough to provide us with seeds to swap.

We had a great day, it was lots of fun, and the Green Fair was wonderful (as ever). We have been invited back to do more seed swaps there, so keep an eye out on the blog and I will let you know when they’re coming up.

Posted 11 May 2010, 09:09.   Posted in .
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1 Comments for The first Alternative Kitchen Garden seed swap

  1. Hi Emma, it was good to meet you and Pete on Sunday, and I’m glad my spare plants and seeds went to a good cause – thanks again for the oca tubers and HSL seeds.

    We had a great day at the Green Fair, and it was really good to meet lots of interesting people and come away from the day with loads of new ideas and inspiration!

    Cheers,
    Rob.

    Rob · May 11, 09:52 AM

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