A growing celebration of seeds returns to Victoria.
Dormant since the pandemic, the local Seedy Saturday is the second oldest in the world, originating in 1994.
This year’s event, held on a Sunday, encompasses a seed exchange, a marketplace for locally grown and climate-adapted seeds, and a venue for formal and informal learning about gardening, community food resilience, and food cultivation.
“Since 2001, when I started organizing the seed exchange at Victoria Seedy Saturday, I’ve noticed that every year more and more people are bringing in vegetable seeds to trade, as opposed to the ornamental plants that we used to see,” longtime volunteer Gillian Rowen said in a news release.