Urban Food Gardening: Seed saving and seed exchange

Urban Food Gardening

I'm an urban farmer - have been for the past 13 years. I am not self sufficient, but I grow a lot of my own veg out the back in a fairly tiny space. This blog is the story of how I do it, what grows, and how I use it. Urban farming/city gardening is great for lost of reasons - not least the delicious and healthy food that you can produce for yourself & your friends & neighbours. If only a few people reading this blog are inspired to trade flowers or grass for vegetables, then I'll be happy.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Seed saving and seed exchange

Beacuse I garden with the school, it's good to have lots of seeds for free so that we can experiment, and not be devastated by disasters. Also, in this world of recession and cutbacks, havening an abundance of anything feels great.

And I'm happy to share some of the bounty so I have the following seeds on offer, and happy to trade or send for free withing Europe - we can discuss sending further afield:

Calendula
Tall sunflowers
Dwarf sunflowers
Large pink poppy
snapdragon
Ragged Jack Kale
Stripey french marigold

Leave a comment if you're interested in any of these...

Also, there is a community of people swapping seeds - see Seed Network

This is a great thing for increasing diversity and building community. Well done for organising it!

Labels: barter, calendula, community, Kale, Natures bounty, plant swaps, Poppy, snapdragon, sunflower

8 Comments:

At 8:54 a.m., Ewa said...: Hello Anna,
I will be more than happy to send you some seeds - I still have some. Just send me an email with your postal address. You will find my email address in the profile section.
Thank you for visiting.
Ewa
At 10:03 p.m., Peggy said...: Hi Anna,what a great idea to swap seeds.We have not got around to doing any of that yet.I have an award for your blog so do visit and pick it up
Best wishes
Peggy
At 8:33 p.m., Anonymous said...: Also, do you know Brown Envelope Seeds? It's a small Irish seed company.

http://www.brownenvelopeseeds.com/
At 3:00 p.m., Anna Bee said...: Hi Patrick -

I haven't bought from them yet, but will in 2009!

Thanks for adding me to the the list of seed swappers!
At 1:09 p.m., Anonymous said...: Hi Anna,

I've got plenty of seeds I can send you. I've got a list of available seeds here. Don't be shy, just tell me what you'd like to have :)
http://myfolia.com/gardener/Annet

I am rather interested in that kale you've got there. Do you still have some seeds from that?
At 12:28 p.m., Anna Bee said...: Annet - have sent you email on flickr.

Yes, I have Kale seeds for you!

Anna
At 8:08 a.m., Elise said...: Hi Anna,

i'm a newbie to seed saving and exchange, so I have nothing to offer you in terms of seeds (although I'm happy to re-imburse for postage costs), but i was hoping you might be willing to send out some of your dwarf sunflower, and snapdragon seeds to me?

cheers elise
At 2:24 p.m., Anna Bee said...: Hi Elise-
Will be happy to send you seeds - but need you to enable your blogger profile so I can email you privately to get your address.

Anna

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Monday, November 03, 2008

Seed saving and seed exchange

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