Events
2020 Events
Please Note:
Due to the Coronavirus situation currently affecting us all, we have had to cancel our meetings. We will be reviewing the situation for the New Year.
SEED SWAP 2021
THE THIRTEENTH BLETCHLEY
SEED SWAP
to be held on
Saturday 13th February 2021
at
Freeman Church Hall
Buckingham Road
MK3 5HH Bucks
From 10am – 2pm
Entrance £1
Seeds, plus Master Composter Stall, Gardener’s Bric a Brac Stall and Plant Stall.
Enhanced by our delicious home-made light lunches and cakes, and readily available gardening chat. (Try and stop us!)
For details phone Jan on 01908 372138, Theresa on 01908 375142
Why Seed Swaps?
By saving and swapping seeds gardeners help to keep alive the genetic diversity of flowers, herbs and vegetables. They also enjoy the adventure of growing something unusual.
Seed Swaps also can offer varieties that do well in the local environment.
Commercial seed companies must pay a fee to register each seed variety that they sell. Understandably, they choose to sell the seeds that will be most profitable. It is illegal to sell seeds that are not registered on the European or National Seed Lists.
It is also illegal for Seed Swaps to sell seeds as they are not registered, which is why we ask for donations for packets of seeds.
Organised Seed Swaps began in Canada in the 1980s, but gardeners have been swapping seeds informally for centuries.