Canberra Seed Savers

Our favourite time of year has arrived! Our spring seed swap & festivities - seed demos, kids craft & a crop swap table! 🫘

If you have seeds to swap, bring them along and take some home some new gems for your garden. You can take home an equivalent amount of seeds to what you donated! Please make sure that seeds you bring are grown without the use of chemicals.

If you have no seeds, you're in luck because we have LOTS! You can browse our seed library and purchase packets of locally grown seeds from herbs, vegetables and flowers!

Or simply come along to enjoy the festivities!

🫟 There will be craft for kids (and the young at heart)
🫟 There will be seed saving demos - come and try it out!
🫟 We will also have a table with our native seeds set up outside for chats and demos.

🌻 Crop Swap Table! 🌻 If you’ve got some extra produce (or bulbs, cuttings etc.) and you’d like to swap, bring them along too!

WHEN: Saturday 5 September, 2-4pm
WHERE: Canberra City Farm, LESS Building, 2 Dairy Road Fyshwick

🌱All ages (bring the kids!)
🌱Free! No RSVP necessary - pop by briefly or stay for chats!
☕️Tea, coffee and some snacks provided - feel free to bring something to share.

If you would like to volunteer to help at the event we would love some newbies! Sign up to help out here https://forms.gle/guKbtAApqsGkaLpT6

Any questions? email at [email protected]

CALLOUT: for native seeds! Our native seed group is looking to expand our box so would be very excited for donations - just make sure they are collected legally (ask us if you want more info on this). Our group focuses on educating and learning together, demystifying native seeds and getting super excited and plant nerdy in the process.

Lots of fun on a lovely sunny (although slightly windy!) afternoon at the Canberra Environment Centre with a lovely bunch of people talking about Growing Herbs and Veggies from Seed.

Thanks to the Canberra Environment Centre for hosting us and to all the lovely people who came along, got their hands dirty and played with the seeds!

SPRING SEED SWAP
SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER
2PM-4PM
CANBERRA CITY FARM
DAIRY ROAD , FYSHWICK

Our Spring Seed Swap is coming up on the first Saturday in September and we're looking for volunteers to help on the day!

When: Saturday 5th September 2-4pm
Where: Canberra City Farm, 2 Dairy Road Fyshwick

If you can help out, please fill out the form (it's super quick) and we'll be in touch: https://forms.gle/guKbtAApqsGkaLpT6

There's a huge range of things to do: set up or pack down, hanging out at the Seedy Craft corner helping kids make Seedy Creatures, taking photos, doing the Donations Table or Point of Sale or keeping the tea, coffee and treats table stocked! We need all the help we can get to make it a great afternoon so please let us know if you think there's another contribution you'd like to make.

Because our food system starts with seeds ! :)

https://www.scienceweek.net.au/event/seed-bomb-workshop/fyshwick/

On Saturday!

Seed Bomb Workshop - National Science Week Join Canberra Seed Savers for a “Seed Bomb” workshop. These dried out mud pies grow herbs and flowers, feed the bees and bring beauty to unloved spaces. This workshop is for kids of all ages (including the grown-up ones!). Workshop runs for 40 minutes, and you can take home your own seed bombs t...

The National Seed Savers Zoom Meetup will be back on Sunday, 2nd August. Our guests for this session are Ambre Whatley from Eden Seeds and Frances Michaels formerly of Green Harvest Seeds.
Have you ever considered the different roles of seed savers, commercial seed growers, and seed retailers? Each of these roles are interconnected, and for some are overlapping.

Who educates and mentors new growers? Who drives making more varieties widely available? How do these roles each contribute to the sustainability of Australia’s seed system?

We’ll be talking about the challenges that seed retailers face in the Australian market, different approaches that companies take, and how international standards play into what they focus on.

We hope that this session will be a good way to develop connections and understanding between seed savers, commercial seed growers and retailers.

Sunday 2nd August
5 - 6.30pm AEST
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have questions or need help registering.
Register Now: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_iTyoYibQampelMehn2kOw #/registration

Hey hey!

So we're testing your seed ID skills (not deliberately) by accidentally packing some sweet peas seeds in snow peas packets.

Sweet peas are a flower and NOT EDIBLE! Their seeds are round and a dark brown or black. About the size of a pin head.

Snow peas seeds are the size of peas and a light brown colour. They could also be wrinkly.

So! If you have recently bought a packet of snow peas seeds from us , take a clear pic and send it to us, telling us which one you think it is!

If you do indeed have sweet peas instead of snow peas, we can also arrange to get the snow peas to you!