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#KingsportTN - Happening right now!

Seed Swap
February 7, 2026, 12:00pm - 4:00pm

"🌱 Join Us for a Seed Swap at the Kingsport Public Library! 🌱
Calling all green thumbs and garden enthusiasts! 🌿 On Saturday, February 7th, 2026, from 12 PM to 4 PM, come swap seeds, share gardening tips, and explore a variety of local organizations that will have information about all things gardening.
🎉 Don’t miss the hands-on Biodegradable Seed Pot Activity—plant seeds in pots that can go directly into the ground as a seedling (while supplies last)!
Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting out, this event is the perfect place to grow your garden dreams. 🌼
📍 Location: Kingsport Public Library (inside the Fort Henry Mall)
📅 Date & Time: Saturday, February 7th, 2025, 12 PM - 4 PM
Let’s dig into spring together! 🌻✨

https://www.kingsportlibrary.org/event-calendar/#/events/z1KxoKn6Jk/instances/uC7SrKHeCY/

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedSwap #GardenCommunity #Tennessee #BuildingCommunity #SeedSharing

3rd Annual #SouthGeorgia #SeedSwap

Saturday, Feb 28, 2026 (11 AM to 2:30 PM)

"2026 is a monumental year... a year to embrace our past, and to cultivate a connection with our agrarian heritage and our community. We’re excited to announce that we will again be hosting the South Georgia Seed Swap at #GeneralCoffeeStatePark! Rain or shine join us February 28th!

Meet at the #RelihanMuseumAndNatureCenter. We encourage all who plan to join us to bring some #NonGMO, #heirloom, or #NativeSeeds to swap with others in attendance. If you have old local varieties we especially hope you'll attend and share!

Presentations on heirloom seeds and seed saving will take place throughout the event. There will be tables, chairs, and plenty of good conversation. Whether you're an experienced gardener or a novice, this is a wonderful learning event.

Admission: FREE
Standard parking fee required
Event Phone: 912-384-7082 "

Source:
https://www.facebook.com/GeneralCoffeeSP/photos/3rd-annual-south-georgia-seed-swapsaturday-feb-28-2026-11-am-to-230-pm-2026-is-a/1224502829865083/

#SolarPunkSunday #Georgia #Seedsharing #GrowYourOwn #HeirloomSeeds #NonGMOSeeds #SharingKnowledge #BuildingCommunity

A table covered by a white table cloth. On the table are bowls of seeds, seed pods, sprouting onions, and loose beans.

#MidlandMI - Great Lakes Bay Region #SeedSwap and #RegenerativeAgriculture Expo

Saturday, February 21, 2026, 10am - 2pm

5121 Bay City Rd, Midland, MI 48642-2029, United States

🌱 "Great Lakes Bay Region Seed Swap & Regenerative Agriculture Expo

Free Admission!

No Seeds? No Problem! Our free Community Seed Table ensures everyone can participate.

Join us for a vibrant, event celebrating community resilience, ecological stewardship, and the shared passion for growing, saving, and sustaining life from the soil up. This expo welcomes participants of all skill levels—from curious beginners to expert growers—and offers a dynamic space to learn, exchange, connect, and collaborate.

Whether you're bringing seeds, sharing skills, showcasing goods, or just exploring, you’re welcomed and valued at this event.

Come connect, learn, swap, and grow with us!"🌿

https://www.facebook.com/events/1648909356484529/

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedSharing #GrowYourOwn #SolarPunkSunday #SeedExchange #Gardening #GrowYourOwnFood #BuildingCommunity #Michigan

12 Useful Tips for Organizing a #SeedSwap

By Tanya Anderson, December 28, 2021

"This is how to organize a seed swap and plant-sharing event that helps people (including yourself) get seeds for free. Includes ideas for booking a venue, sponsors, donations, and reaching people with news of the event. "

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedExchange #SeedSharing #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #BuildingCommunity

My favorite #SeedBank #SeedSharing site:

https://www.nativeseeds.org

I've grown most of their chile #pepper #seeds and some of the purple #tomatoes. Good fun; good to eat.

#NativeAmerican #Opata

#PacificAster is one of my fave #NativePlants to use for #rewilding & for attracting more #pollinators.

It's a small, hardy, beautiful purple #NativeWildflower which is found from BC to California. It's tolerant of many different coastal habitats, from ocean sand dunes to rocky outcrops to salt marshes to grasslands to forests. Great plant to use for soil erosion & slopes stabilization work. It has a deep, clumpy, extensive fibrous root system - don't grow beside plants with weaker root systems.

Pacific aster is extremely easy to grow in it's native grow zones, across coastal PNW areas. You'll love their long bloom time, from late May into late October. It provides pollen sources for pollinators in Fall. After they stop blooming, they'll produce fluffy seed heads, full of prolific wind-born #seeds. Snip off tops of seed heads to save them. I store mine in airtight jars & share a lot of them too.

#gardening #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #Gardeners #botanical #Flowers #PollinatorGarden #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #perennials #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #PlantLovers #FallFlowers #Autumn #Nature #SeedSavers #SeedKeepers #SeedSharing #SeedBanking #SeedCollecting #SilentSunday #biodiversity

A split image showcasing different stages of Pacific aster wildflower in the late summer or early fall. The left side highlights a hand holding a flower with vibrant purple petals and a yellow center, with a red wrist wrap visible below. The right side features a cluster of fluffy, white seed heads and seed pods nestled among green foliage. The background of both sides shows a variety of green and muted foliage suggesting an outdoor setting.

#Canadians - Please sign this #petition & share it widely!

#Defend #SeedSaving #Rights 🙏

A proposed federal rule would remove #farmers right to save #seeds from new fruit, vegetable, ornamental and hybrid #plants - raising costs, and limiting local #climate adaptation. Tell our Government to defend seed-saving rights.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6778

#FoodSecurity #SeedsOfLife #SeedsPreservation #SeedSavers #SeedsSovereignty #SeedCollectors #SeedSharing #Gardeners #Botanical #SaveOurSeeds #SignPetition #CDNpoli #BCpoli #TakeAction #SupportSmallFarmers #FreeTheSeeds #HandsOffOurSeeds #SeedsAreSacred #Canada

So, folks in #Maine / #NewEngland. I'll have extra #CosmosSeeds (pink) and #CatnipSeeds to share. DM me for deets, and we'll figure out how to mail / share them!

#SeedSharing #SolarPunkSunday #AcclimatedSeeds #GardeningForPollinators #ClimateChangeGardening

Excellent resource! @MaQuest @OccuWorld

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedSaving #SeedSharing #LibrariesRule!

#seedsharing breaks #gametheory.

The #FourSisters: Nurturing a time of plenty

"For the #Mandan, #Hidatsa and #Arikara people, seeds are even more than miraculous kernels of life. They are relatives and storehouses of ancestral memory, linked back to a time of abundance connected to the land. That is why the seed sovereignty project generates so much excitement throughout the community. Last month, the program’s first Food and Seed Summit drew around 100 enthusiastic participants.

"The college’s #FoodSovereignty effort aims to help reverse the cultural loss from the MHA Nation’s 1940s dislocation by flooding from the massive Garrison Dam. The seed sovereignty project engages faculty and community members, elders and USDA researchers to cultivate food security in the Three Affiliated Tribes.

Sowing #Sovereignty: Reclaiming #IndigenousAgriculture in #NorthDakota

By Tracy L. Barnett, June 10, 2024

Excerpt:
"Like others from her community, Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills grew up hearing the stories about a time of bounty, when the Three Affiliated Tribes farmed the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River. They grew nearly everything they needed in a tight-knit network of communities where work was shared and abundance existed for all.

"The stories were all that remained from those days – and the seeds.

" 'We had a lot of independence, even up to the 1940s,' Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills told Buffalo’s Fire. 'Then, with the Garrison Dam, that had some devastating impacts in terms of our ability to grow our #TraditionalFoods.' "

#SolarPunkSunday #FoodSecurity #FoodSovereignty #SeedSharing #NativeAmericanFoods #BuildingCommunity

I'm processing all the photos/vids from yesterday now. Then going for a mental wellness walk in nearby forest. Napping after lunch. Visiting one client in afternoon. Getting back to personal communications when back from client appointment.

I have a couple of phone meetings today to discuss creating a #cultural #SeedLibrary (separate from the LifeCycles Victoria Seed Library project). The BIPOC specific seeds library would be only for food crop seeds from our far away homelands that aren't really grown or known about here. There's many of us POC who've been displaced from our homelands & far from our traditional food crops. There's a gap with seed libraries here - all the ones currently available are colonial & don't include many POC traditional food crop seeds. I want to work with local, #BIPOC #diaspora folks to create the first cultural seed library on #VancouverIsland. I met several fellow displaced POC war survivors yesterday & there's a lot of interest in this idea. I want to work on making it a reality. BIPOC #FoodSecurity initiative.

#Saanich #VictoriaBC #YYJ #Grassroots #CommunityBuilding #CulturalFarming #GrowingFood #SeedSharing #SeedSaving

#Tennessee: #NashvillePublicLibrary, #Goodlettsville Branch

Spring #PlantSwap / #SeedExchange

When: Saturday, April 5, 2025 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Goodlettsville

Description: "Do you have too many seeds, seedlings, or plants? Bring your extras and share with the community. Don't forget to checkout seeds from our Seed Exchange!"

Contact: Goodlettsville (615) 862-5862
https://events.library.nashville.org/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&href=/public/cals/MainCal/CAL-8a3e8e4b-93073382-0194-95829436-00002ce4.ics
#SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule #SeedSwap #SeedSharing #PlantSwap #BuildingCommunity #Gardening

#Tennessee: #NashvillePublicLibrary #SeedExchange

"The Seed Exchange offers access to local librarians who will support, coach, and cheer you on as you grow your own home, school, church, or community garden. The best part about our Seed Exchange: it’s free! All you need is a library card."

Borrow Seeds

"Use your library card to borrow vegetable, herb, and flower seeds at Main Library and select branches. Find a Seed Exchange location near you. Borrowing seeds is free. All you need is a Nashville Public Library card."

Grow Plants

"NPL’s Seed Exchange offers access to local librarians who will support, coach and cheer you on as you grow your own home, school, church or community garden. We’re also working with local farmers, gardeners and community agencies to offer free gardening workshops throughout the year."

Return Seeds

"Once the season is over, harvest seeds from your garden and return them to the library. We ask that you follow certain protocol when harvesting seeds to share with the Seed Exchange. We want people who take seed to get what was on the label and we want to protect from passing on disease.

"Additionally, we are always looking for #OpenPollinated, #HeirloomSeeds from anyone in the community who is willing to share, a little or a lot.

"Our Seed Protocol [linked below] includes guidelines for properly saving and preparing seeds to share."

https://library.nashville.org/events/seed-exchange

Seed protocol:
https://library.nashville.org/about/policies/seed-protocol
#SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule #SeedLibrary #SeedSharing #BuildingCommunity #Gardening

@nix the library here in albuquerque has seeds for patrons to take. i always thought that was a great resource. #abq #seedsharing

https://abqlibrary.org/seeds/How

#ElkRapidsMI #library starts seed library, offers #FreeSeeds for #CommunityGardening

by Marc Schollett, March 16th 2025

ANTRIM COUNTY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - "With temperatures rising across northern #Michigan, folks with green thumbs are gardens are already thinking of what they'll plant this spring, but a northern Michigan library maybe one step ahead of them and lending a helping hand at the same time.

"'Libraries are a place where people come together for community,' said Emily Spielbauer, Elk Rapids District Library.

"The Elk Rapids District Library isn't huge, but what it offers the community it serves is gigantic.

"'I mean, it feels great to know that you're serving the community or feeling a need,' said Spielbauer.

"Inside, a ton of books, but it's what just appeared in their lobby this week that may have folks stopping to take a second look.

"Ultimately right now we're really excited about the opening of our seed library in which people can come and get seeds," said Spielbauer.

"It is a library inside a library.

"So we've got a lot of produce, a lot of different types of things that you can eat. We have a small section of flowers, but the idea is that we're offering a source of food for the community," said Spielbauer.

"Right in the corner, is the library's seed library, hundreds of packets, of dozens of different things you can grow in your garden.

"'So the seeds are a self-service station. People do not have to give their name or anything. They can just come in and take what they will use,' said Spielbauer.

"The seeds are free, but there is a tremendous perk for getting them here that you just don't get buying them at the store.

"'You get these green thumbs together and they start talking about their favorite things to grow. And like I said, sharing tips and tricks together,' said Spielbauer.

"The seed library offers all the things you might expect to grow here in Northern Michigan...and a few that have sparked some curiosity.

"'One thing that I've not seen go and I'm really interested if someone would report back is the okra. Like I don't know how to grow it and we've got a lot of okra seeds,' said Spielbauer.

"A lot of seeds, thanks to a lot of donations."

#California: #MariposaCounty #Library Offers New #SeedLibrary at the #RedCloudBranch in #GreeleyHill, Also Available in #Mariposa
Monday, 03 March 2025 06:39

March 3, 2025 – "Mariposa County Library officials announce that they now have a Seed Library at the Red Cloud Branch in Greeley Hill. We have vegetables, herbs, and flowers.

"The way this works is you can stop by, take a few seeds, put them in baggies, write down instructions for planting them, and be on your way. We also invite users to leave their own seed donations.

"This project was in partnership with the Master Gardeners, who we are very grateful to! We also have a Seed Library at the Mariposa Branch that they assist with maintaining, on a regular basis."

Source:
https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/65134-mariposa-county-library-offers-new-seed-library-at-the-red-cloud-branch-in-greeley-hill-also-available-in-mariposa
#SeedLibrary #MariposaCA #SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #LibrariesRule! #SeedSharing #SeedExchange #Gardening

So, today's #SolarPunkSunday has been mostly about #SeedSharing and #Gardening. I think I'm going to continue with this theme since it's a timely topic. Next week I'll make sure to cover #RepairCafes and ways to make #RenewableEnergy more nature-friendly!
#SolarPunk

#NorthDakota: #JamesRiverValley #SeedLibrary Opening March 20

By: Steve Urness March 7, 2025

JAMESTOWN, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – "The 2025 Seed Library is opening March 20 at #StutsmanCountyLibrary!

"#NDSU Extension Agent Ashley Kjellberg will be presenting a talk entitled, 'Timeline for Planting a Successful Garden.The seed library will also be open for you to choose from a variety of seeds from vegetables to flowers. Attendees will receive a free 3D printed garden marker (while supplies last).

"The Seed Library opens March 20th at 6:30 PM in the Stutsman County Library in Jamestown, North Dakota."

Source:
https://www.newsdakota.com/2025/03/07/james-river-valley-seed-library-opening-march-20/
#SeedLibrary #SeedSharing #JamestownND #SolarPunkSunday #BuildingCommunity #SeedSharing #Gardening

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