Co-sponsored by The Kohala Center’s Hawai‘i Public Seed Initiative
- Bring your favorite dishes focusing on fresh and locally grown produce for the Potluck!
- Bring seeds and FIRE ANT-FREE plant cuttings and bare roots (PLEASE Check for Fire Ants!)
- Dance with Kunzwanana marimba band!
- Hear an update on seed saving across the state
- Enjoy the Potluck!
- Meet your neighbors, other gardeners, and innovative thinkers.
- Tour La‘akea Community
- If you have come to our seed exchange at least five times in the last 10 years, please come and be acknowledged as one of our esteemed seed ambassadors.
Schedule:
9 a.m. Set up (please bring your own tables and chairs, and scrap paper for small packets for seeds)
9:30 Opening Circle
9:45 Seed and Plant Material Swap
10:30 Tour of La‘akea
11:30 Seed-Saving Update and Knowledge Share
12:45 Potluck (bring your own plates, utensils, etc.)
1:15–2:15 Kunzwanana marimba band!
This event is free!!
Please review this guide on How to Check for Fire Ants before bringing plant material to any seed exchange!
Seed-Sharing Protocol:
- Do not share seeds of invasive species! If you are not sure you can go to https://plants.usda.gov/java/noxious?rptType=State&statefips=15
- Do not share brassica seeds as spread of blackrot can happen, it is a seed-borne disease and many of the seed companies are having a problem with this.
- Do not share old seeds as germination may be low.
- Label or bring a description of each of the seeds you share including date of harvest.
- Bring your own seed envelopes or baggies and markers for labeling.
- Do not bring seeds and put them on another seed-sharer’s table unless you have a very good description of the seeds/date and crop and permission of the person at the table.