Grow Vancouver

Seed Swap and Giveaway.

Spring is just around the corner, and you can’t have a garden without seeds! Check out Grow Vancouver: Seed Swap and Giveaway hosted by Urban Abundance, who also recently held a Wildflower Seedball Making Workshop; if you like anything to do with food, gardens, flowers, or pollinators, you should definitely check them out!

So, bring your extra vegetable seed and trade with neighbors. Bring packets to fill with seed. Take home some of the packets of the 250 pounds of Free Vegetable and Herb Seed that have been donated to Urban Abundance. Besides seed exchanging there will be opportunities to plan more urban agriculture projects with neighbors. Vegetarian stew and cornbread will be available. Feel free to bring other food goodies to share!

Grow Vancouver meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month (check out their calendar for updated time and location) and is a place for neighbors to meet and work together on urban agriculture projects. The meetings are open to all and are a great opportunity to meet other people in Vancouver focused on urban agriculture.

Half of the meeting is dedicated to an activity or speaker, the other half is dedicated to Hot Topics brought by neighbors who show up. Bring your Hot Topic and break off into a small group to see what we can get done!

Hot Topic ideas:

• Getting neighborhood buy-in to utilize the new Neighborhood Garden Policy.

• Developing a plan to work with the owner of a 3 acre site near Andreson and 4th Plain that has committed the site to urban agriculture.

• Developing a plan to work a privately owned half acre site in Central Park and a half acre site in Edgewood neighborhood that have been offered as a site for a neighborhood garden.

• Funding has been offered for Pollinator Pathways in Vancouver. Where should we place the first one?

Bring your hot topics to Grow Vancouver and find neighborhood partners to work through the details of growing more food in Vancouver.

For more information, contact Warren Neth at 360-771-1296.

*This article originally posted on February 13, 2011.