Sunday I took a nice long drive up north of Seattle, Washington, to participate in a seed exchange at Laura’s Not-So-Urban Hennery. And somehow I managed to convince my friend Denise to come along! Round trip, this was a seven hour drive, plus a diversion to Morton, Washington, to visit a nursery that I will write more about later.
The seed exchange was really fun! I had a ton of heirloom seeds to pawn off on people, like tomatoes, pumpkins, squashes, etc. When you have 25 seeds of one tomato, and six tomato varieties, it makes sense to share for something else. I came home with collards, new beet varieties, and some others.
The drive was gorgeous and it allowed Denise and I to have some great catch-up time. There were some unexpected adventures along the way, but it was all worth it. People brought homemade dishes for a potluck, so we all enjoyed fabulous food. And it was a great opportunity to meet like-minded, chicken-keeping, urban homesteading folks also battling this NW climate in the garden.
Now it’s time to start working on making my newspaper seed pots and get these seeds a-going!
I hope your trip home went well, and that the little guy is doing ok now. He was lucky to have found you two. It was great to meet you in person!
It was great to meet you on Sunday. I would love to share ideas on good sources for local foods in Portland.
I keep getting the 404 error on the seed pots link. We did all direct sow last year, and I want an earlier start for 2009. Especially with the great weather these last few days…ready to get some stuff growing! You doing any new chickens this year?
Travis, here is the link: http://www.hipchickdigs.com/wordpress/2008/02/newspaper-seed-pots/
I also put up a new post today that links back to the instructions on making seed pots from newspaper. Good luck!
And no plans for new chickens this year! Maybe next Spring, when my girls are a little older. They are so damn cute though… It’s certainly tempting to raise new ones and adopt out.
Hi! I have been trying to get to your newspaper seed pot page. I want to teach me children how to make Earth friendly planters, and I can’t seem to get there with your site. Please help! Thanks
Here is the link to the video of making newspaper seed pots: http://www.hipchickdigs.com/wordpress/2009/03/video-newspaper-seed-pots/
And here is the original: http://www.hipchickdigs.com/wordpress/2008/02/newspaper-seed-pots/