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! (Please bring labels for your potluck items)
- 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
- Participate in a knowledge share
- Meet your neighbors, other gardeners, and innovative thinkers
- Tour La‘akea Community
- Enjoy the potluck!
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
10:45 Seed-Saving Update and Knowledge Share
12:00 Tour of La‘akea
12:45 Potluck (bring your own plates, utensils, etc.)
1:15–3:00 Kunzwanana marimba band!
This event is free!!
Directions to the La‘akea Community: Go south on Highway 130 past Pāhoa, past Leilani, turn right on Alaili just past the 14-mile marker, follow the signs to veer right up our driveway. Please carpool!
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.