It's that time of year when the snowdrops are coming up and those of us who enjoy growing start thinking about getting some seeds in the ground, or at the very least planning the season ahead. Maybe you don't currently grow anything and would love to but don't know where and how to start?
Head to one of these seed swaps happening in the county over the next weeks to get your hands on and share seeds. Learn more about the importance of seed saving to safeguard our future year's of harvests on a local and national level. Have a chat with someone swapping their seeds and learn how to grow them!
Saturday 1st February 10am - 1pm at the Courtyard Theatre, Hereford
Saturday 1st February 11am - 3pm Rodway Hall, Redland Road. Malvern
Saturday 8th February 10am - 1pm at Leominster Priory
Saturday 15th February 10am - 12pm The Globe at Hay
Check out Garden Organic's website to see more information on the Heritage Seed Library and learn why saving seeds is so important to our local and national food security.
I'll leave you with a lovely poem evoking the possibility of seeds by Muriel Stuart (1885 - 1967)
The Seed-Shop
Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,
Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry -
Meadows and gardens running through my hand.
In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams;
A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust
That will drink deeply of a century's streams;
These lilies shall make summer on my dust.
Here in their safe and simple house of death,
Sealed in their shells, a million roses leap;
Here I can blow a garden with my breath,
And in my hand a forest lies asleep.