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Seedy Sunday 2014

Seedy Sunday 2014!

Peterborough's Annual Seed Exchange

Sunday March 9th 1-5pm

George St. United Church
FREE

Seedy Sunday is the perfect place to get inspired for Spring. Come out to get all the knowledge, tools, and resources needed to get growing this season. There will be an incredible diversity of vegetables, flowers, and herbs available for sale, as well as a plethora of community groups showcasing the great work they do, informative hands-on workshops and the ever popular Seed Exchange Area where you can trade seed with other gardeners & learn more about seed saving.

Come and buy seeds (& other fab stuff) from these great vendors:

New vendors this year:

Learn some great stuff from or find out how to be involved with these community groups:

Check out more pictures from last years event

seed swappers checking out the selection at a past Seedy Sunday

Seedy Sunday 2014 - March 9th

Seedy Sunday 2014!

Peterborough's Annual Seed Exchange

Sunday March 9th 1-5pm

George St. United Church

More information coming soon!

Check out pictures from last years event

Toronto West End Seedy Saturday: Tomorrow!

I'll be at West End Seedy Saturday in Toronto tomorrow!

When: March 23rd, 2013

Time: 10 am - 3 pm

Where: Bonar-Parkdale Presbyterian Church

Location: 250 Dunn Avenue (Parkdale)

Come by & buy some seeds, check out my seed saving workshop at 2:30pm or just say hello.

Seedy Sunday 2012 Photos

Packing seeds before hand for the seed exchange area

George St. United Church in the morning before the whole day got started

eager shoppers stocking up on seeds

urbantomato booth

The following photos courtesy of Julie Morris @cupcakeJu

Scadding Court Community Centre Seed Exchange

Here is some shots of the urbantomato booth at the Scadding Court Community Centre Seedy Saturday on March 3rd 2012. Nice to see so many folks that I only get to see once a year!

box of seeds

Find urbantomato at Scadding Court Community Centre (TO) this

Saturday March 4th 2-5pm

Seedy Sunday 2012 - less than two weeks away!

Peterborough's Annual Seed Exchange

Seedy Sunday

Sunday March 11th 2-5pm

George St. United Church

FREE.

Seedy Sunday is a great place to get inspired for Spring. Come out and get the knowledge, tools and resources you need to get growing this season. There will be vendors selling a huge variety of heirloom seeds, local community offering resources, advice and information, as well as a seed exchange area where participants can trade seeds or purchase some for a donation. The PCGN will be hosting informative garden related workshops.

For more information go to http://urbantomato.blogspot.com or contact urbantomato@gmail.com

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Packing seeds & making buttons

Spending lots of time in my home office making buttons & packaging seeds getting ready for seed exchange and market season:

Buttons lining up

My old 8-track box is filling right up with packaged seeds!

packing my striped cavern seeds

My tomato seed collection

I have been collecting tomato seeds for over six years! wow what fun it has been. this is my chronological collection. starting in the front with some seeds given to me, then my 2006 & 2007 collections in the tines, 2008 small box, 2009 box with red flowers, 2010 bigger box next to that, and the big box at the back is my 2011 tomato seed collection. Love that the containers & the collections gets bigger & bigger each year!!

I will be donating lots to seed exchanges around the provinces soon

I need an antique post-office box or library card catalouge to hold them all

My seed bank

At this time of the year, I take my seeds out of the various cabinets they are stored in throughout my house, and go through them to determine what I should donate to seed exchanges, what should be planted, and of course package some to sell

Of course, I couldn't resist photographing my collection

*For the record, you shouldn't keep your seeds this close to a radiator, or out in a sunny room, i did this just for organizing purposes

Seedy Sunday Workshops

Just announced: Workshop topic for Seedy Sunday!

Planning your Garden for the Season:

How to Maximize your Space & Optimize Your Yield

with Peggy Baillie ~ local gardening guru

Want to make the most of your space, find solutions to challenges or gain tools for your garden? Come to the Garden Planning Workshop at 2:30pm at Peterborough Seedy Sunday to discover ways to make your garden the most productive. The following topics will be discussed: Seed starting, square foot gardening/space planning, succession planning and season extension. Peggy will also provide some tools to make your planning that much easier.

Come to discover how to make your garden suit your needs.

Seedy Sunday 2012 Vendors & Community Groups

Come and buy seeds (& other fab stuff) from these great vendors:

Terra Edibles
Les Bowser – Cedar Grove
Green-Side-Up Environmental Services
Heritage Seed & Produce – Kingston
Greta’s Organics
Urbantomato seeds
Mountain Grove Seed Company
Earth Works
Cottage Gardener
Peterborough Field Naturalists
Ann Brown - The Plant Lady!
Robin Tench - Worms!
Coffee, snacks, and products from Peterborough Eats

Learn some great stuff from or find out how to be involved with these community groups:

Seedy Sunday 2012 - Seed Exchange Area

Seed Exchange Area: Seedy Sunday 2012

The Seed Exchange area is an integral part of the event. Anybody is welcome to participate. You can bring your own seeds to trade. If possible, package them ahead of time into smaller envelopes (See details below) or envelopes, and volunteers will be available to help you divide up seed on site. Seed packages are traded on a system of trust, one package for one package.

If you do not have your own seeds to trade, you will also be able to take seeds home for small donations. All proceeds will go to Seeds of Diversity Canada.

If you have any questions, need more information, or would like to donate seeds ahead of time, please do not hesitate to contact me:

Seedy Sunday 2012

Woohoo! It's that time of year again! Time to start thinking about seed exchanges again. This is a preliminary announcement. More details to follow soon!

If you are interested in vending, showcasing your community group, donating seeds, doing a workshop, volunteering or have any suggestions, contact me!