Seed Swap Announcements

[Chiu-Ki Chan]

GrowHaus Seed Swap

March 23, 2019 (Saturday)
10am to 5pm
The GrowHaus
4751 York St, Denver, CO 80216
$7.5 / $12 / $15

https://www.thegrowhaus.org/seed-swap

[reed]

This is kind of related to seed swap I think. I have a lot of seed I don't want so I started dropping it all in a box thinking I would donate it to the seed library but as the box filled I realized it would take forever to pack it all up in small packets with labels so people would know what it is, way more time and trouble than I want to mess with. I have several two liter bottles of sweet corn, probably a pint of tomato seeds, good golly, where did it all come from?   

I'm thinking of roughly tilling a spot out in the weeds and tossing it all in or scattering it up and down the road. Go back a few months later and see if anything grew. What do others do with extra seed?

[Diane Whitehead]

feed it to the chickens?

[Walk]

Feed some to chickens (brassicas, cukes, allium), eat some (beans, corn, squash) and the rest for green manure or compost.

[reed]

Yep, already ate a lot of the beans, most corn I reckon will go to chickens. Planted a lot of old peas, radishes, turnips yesterday just for soil improvement in spots where corn or something will go in later.

[William Schlegel]

Last year I seeded a large outside the fence area with excess seeds. I think it's time to eliminate the inside the fence parsnips. They seem to be doing great unfenced.

[Joseph Lofthouse]

Seed Distribution Platform

During the course of this year, it became apparent that the biggest way that we could help all of you was to facilitate the sharing of genetically diverse seeds. For beginning landrace gardeners, it can be expensive and time consuming to collect as many varieties as is ideal for the development of a new landrace. For established landrace gardeners, this can be a way to increase diversity of an existing established population, or an easy way to add another species or project to your garden.

For the first year, we will be focusing on popular crops that (for the most part) are the highly out-crossing species that are easy to grow and develop locally adapted landraces.

Having a way to collect, combine, and redistribute seeds from landrace gardeners everywhere has been Joseph's goal for many years. We are all lucky that Anna Meiritz came along and shared the vision and capacity for making the plan, organizing the people, and building the system for making it happen this year! To say that we are excited to see how this develops over the coming years is an understatement.

To learn more and participate:

There is a new chapter at the beginning of the Landrace Gardening course. Sign in Here. It contains all the instructions, lists of crops, mailing info, where to ask questions, and much more.

This first year we have to focus on the US and Canada. But do not despair if you are located outside those areas, as we will be collecting information by country, and then will share that with other course participants in that country for direct seed swapping purposes. Information on that is located in the last lesson of the first chapter.

Because the window for sending in seeds starts today and only lasts for the month of October, we hope that you'll review the information as soon as possible, and as you're saving seed from your garden this fall, save extra for the landrace gardening community.

Cheers to more diversity, more seeds, and more delicious food!

Julia, Joseph, and Anna

PS. Thank you to our wonderful seed stewards for helping facilitate this project:

Christopher Weeks
Lowell McCampbell
Kim Wolf
Carolyn Brown
Debbie Ang
Anphlo Dubouloz
Joseph Zarr

ModernLandraces.com
LandraceGardening@gmail.com

[William Schlegel]

I dug some seeds out to send in for this project today. I've even got padded mailers right now because I just got a package of them and mailed off a few things to some folks on here.

[William Schlegel]

This is what I dug out. Some Goldini, some moschata, some Lofthouse buttercup, Lofthouse muskmelon, some XL red strain, some Montana Rainbow Fava. Don't know what else I should send in but I'll add some.

There are a lot of rules I normally violate willfully. Like my new fangled Mandan x Lofthouse summer squash project sounds like it is too rule breaking for this here. Too bad amigos it is going to be a joyfull F2!

[Adrian]

Someone is interested by my small version of violino rugosa?
Unfortunately i live in france i don't think that i can participated.


She is more vigorous than  violino rugosa

1: fruit the 11 june
2: plant the 8th may
I can note that she  give fruits more fast than violino rugosa.
A small fruit get mature more fast.
I think really that everibody has right to eat tasty fruits eaven in little favorable climate.
Weight of this small violino rugosa:1,4kg
Normal weight of a violino rugosa: between 4-8kg.

[William Schlegel]

Well I have some seed packaged up to send out in the morning.

[Kadence Luneman]

Will the seed exchange happen in the future? I'm not able to pay for the course right now and hopefully next fall I'll have some saved seed to be able to share.

[William Schlegel]

Thanks in part to this seed swap Joseph announced I am sending and receiving seeds already this season. Just mailed out two more envelopes. Got one.

[William Schlegel]

Getting ready for the five valleys seed swap in Missoula MT on March 25 at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library

[Cotyledon]

Sadly I missed this years plant swap at one of the local nurseries here in Salt Lake County, Schmidts Greenhouse has one here in March.

I try to make it but it is super early in the season for me and so a lot of my plants are in cold storage until later, but I will try to make it next year.

I am on the lookout for plant and seed swaps here in Utah. I know I am not the only member here in the high desert of Deseret.