Sunday 23rd February 2025
12.30pm-4.30pm
Trinity Centre, BS2 0NW
In 2025, Bristol Seed Swap will return to The Trinity Centre with the usual mix of seed tables, speakers, panels, stalls, our ever-popular cafe and a kids' area.
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Bristol Seed Swap brings people together to exchange seeds, promote food growing and gardening and encourage resilience in our food system.
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Take what you need, give what you can: bring your own seeds if you have any to exchange, pledge to bring some next year
if you don't.
What can I expect at Bristol Seed Swap?
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Seed Tables - where you can browse to choose the seeds you need
Seed Guardians - help grow and save rare seeds for our community in Bristol
Speakers - hear from experts on seed saving, food resilience, gardening and more -
Stalls - selling plants, seeds, 'green' goods and promoting organisations with a growing or ethical theme
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Food - a wonderful pop-up cafe serving fabulous drinks and cake
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Information - about local growing projects, and how to get growing
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People - lots of friendly and happy volunteers and visitors
Free Entry and Seeds!
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We want as many people as possible to grow food and to get into gardening generally. Money should be no barrier to doing so.
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Donations for entry and for seeds are welcome if you can afford it - it is entirely at your discretion, no one is going to ask you about it.
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Bristol Seed Swap Events are self-funding and run entirely by volunteers. Next year's event depends on this year's breaking even.
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I don't have seeds to swap, can I still join in?
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Absolutely YES!
Everyone has to start somewhere, and we want to get everyone growing - whether you have a window box, a small Bristol front garden or are on the waiting list for an allotment.
For next year, please try saving some seeds to bring to the Seed Swap. Find out how on our Seedy Stuff pages.
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What do I need to bring?
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SEEDS - to add to the Seed Tables if you have any, these can be spare shop bought seeds or ones you have saved yourself.FRIENDS and NEIGHBOURS - tell the gardeners in your life about the Swap, some people are just too busy growing things to look at social media - we find it hard to reach them with publicity.​
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​CASH - for donations, though we can now take Paypal they take a hefty percentage of your money.
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WARM CLOTHES - you may have to queue for a while.
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Become a Seed Guardian
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Become a Seed Guardian for Bristol Seed Swap. Sign up to save some seeds for us and our volunteers will support you through the year. We have a facebook group for our seed guardians or contact us on Bristolseedswap@gmail.com for more information.
Donations
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We welcome donations, but they are entirely at your discretion and only if you can afford it. If you are skint, volunteering with the Seed Swap or learning how to save seeds for us is another way to 'give back'.
Volunteer at Bristol Seed Swap
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If you’d like to get involved with organising Bristol Seed Swap 2025, or simply help out on the day next time, please email brisseedswapvols@gmail.com.
General Enquiries
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To offer seeds, enquire about a stall in 2025, suggest a collaboration, or requests a speaker, or any other enquiry email bristolseedswap@gmail.com.
Keep in touch
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​To receive details of future events, including next year’s Seed Swap plus relevant workshops or talks. Our mailing list is low traffic and informative, we certainly won't be flooding your inbox.
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