Getting Ready for Seedy Sunday!
Posted:22 January 2016
One of the few things to cheer a chilly winters day is a visit to the Seedy Sunday seed swop. Here at the Garden House we’ve been preparing seeds for swopping and making lists of seeds and seed-potatoes that we’d like to buy. We’ll be there so do visit our stand and find out more about all our 2016 workshops and courses.
The next Seedy Sunday, the UKs oldest community seed swap, will take place in Brighton on Sunday 7th February 2016 at Brightons Corn Exchange.
Sponsored by Infinity Foods, the event will feature:
- Radio 4s Gardeners Question Time
- Expert speakers
- A seed swap table
- More than 60 stalls
- Cookery demonstrations
- Childrens activities
- Infinity café
Seedy Sunday is also a campaign to protect biodiversity and protest against the increasing control of the seed supply by a handful of large companies. For more info on the event, CLICK HERE.
In her article How Seedy Sunday Works, Lindy Sharpe writes:
‘Where can you find a District Nurse, a Nuns Belly Button, a Lazy Housewife, a Fat Lazy Blonde and a Drunken Woman all in the same room? If you suggested a brothel, youre wrong.
In fact, they are all traditional varieties of garden vegetables (the first three are climbing beans, the last two lettuces), and they and many others, equally picturesque, are to be found at Seedy Sunday, the community seed swap that takes place every February in Brighton and Hove. And just in case you have the impression that the people who named vegetables in the past were uniformly scatological, there are descriptive and romantic names too: Black Valentine is another bean, Bulls Blood is a beetroot, and, poignantly, Cherokee Trail of Tears is a climbing bean reportedly so valued by the tribe of the same name that they took it with them when the were driven from their homelands. It now grows happily in southern England.’
