Let us Help You Organize a Community Seed Swap

Want to organize a seed and plant swap event for your community? Mother Earth News will help! If you will send us an announcement about your event at least three weeks in advance, along with a list of your local ZIP codes, we will relay the announcement to other Mother Earth News readers living in your area. In addition, we’ll post your announcement in our online Event Calendar.

WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

Email OrganicGardening@MotherEarthNews.com with the subject line COMMUNITY SEED SWAP, and include the following information:

1. Event Date and Time

2. Event Location
If you’d like, you may include a link to an online map.

3. Event Organizer’s Name and Contact Information 
Note: This contact information will be included in the announcement that we send out.

4. List of ZIP codes
Check your local phone book or the USPS ZIP code finder to find the ones you’d like us to send the announcement to.

5. Announcement Text
If you or your organization has a website with more information about this event, you might want to include a link.

RESOURCES:

• To learn more about the benefits of community seed swaps, see Swap Seeds This Season.
• For tips on setting up a seed swap, see How to Organize a Community Seed Swap.
• Please feel free to take printouts of any Mother Earth News gardening articles to your event. Here are a few we recommend highly:   
    * Savvy Seed Care 
    * Seed-starting Basics
    * Grow Your Own Seeds
    * Best Seeds for a Bigger, Better Garden 

WIN PRIZES FROM MOTHER EARTH NEWS!

If you'd like to host a contest to make your seed swap more fun, we'll gladly donate a prize. The gardener who brings the widest variety of heirloom tomato seeds will win one of our NRG ergonomic garden trowels! (E-mail OrganicGardening@MotherEarthNews.com with the subject line “Seed Swap Contest,” and we’ll help you set this up.)