Can anyone identify these #eggs on the #maize leaves, they are in #Ōtepoti #Dunedin #new zealand and to me look like #frog eggs but I dont have frogs locally

Summer sow guide, based on St Kilda, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa 🌿🇳🇿 🌱💚 www.facebook.com/share/p/1AfH...

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And finally, Summer of 2025/2026 Seeds from this poppy will be made available to people as they share seed back to this wee seed library project in Ōtepoti. They are freesource and not to be sold, only shared. Details here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cpk...

These are photos from the same poppy seedline, and how it expressed in the Summer of 2024/2025, including a seedhead stripped by possibly a moth larvae?

Here are the photos of this same seedline, from the summer of 2023/2024

Who remembers this wee grow out back when Frieda was so much younger? Link to fb post with more photos, but here are four from 2022/23 Summer. www.facebook.com/share/p/1GwG...

Rooted Salvia Amistad stems, koha of around $5 a stem, these four are in water and need to go over next few days, but I can offer heaps for anyone wanting to grab some for a border or whatever.

Valerianella locusta aka Mâcha aka Corn Salad aka Lamb's Lettuce I acquired (with permission) this speciman from the mara kai at school, as it was dropping its seed and is probably around two thirds ripe.

Interested to know if anyone else in Ōtepoti has noticed Tī Kouka flowering profusely this season? Or any other Native plants 💚📷 other parts of Aotearoa? I wonder if it's a Mast year?

Katie Hastings of Wales Seed Sovereignty tells the story of Welsh Black Oats in 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘵 #2, reflecting on questions of ownership, commons, heritage and belonging, and asking "what does it mean to say that these oats are 'ours'?". Pic: Andy Pilsbury for the Gaia Foundation. #plantstories #seedsaving

Tomatoes from Sara, please help, I dont have room for all these plants!

Thank you to Sara for dropping over some excess tomatoes! They've been potted up in fours, some as reds (likely to be money maker), and yellows, which include Glimpse, that we dont have in the tomato catalog,

Donkey and horse manure The horse manure shelf has been stocked up with more bags of manure on the St Kilda stall. This development is a bit of a foray into promoting inclusion. We have a group of individuals supported by Community Care Trust to bag up the manure.

Romanesco broccoli has been pretty much pest free since the beginning, despite white butterfly about. I plan to grow it out again, with seed from a different supplier as well, hopefully get the heads a bit more substantial next time, and will add in fresh seed. (Planted too close together)

This is an easy flower for beginning a seedsaving journey. It's Calendula. And it's one where you can actually watch the seeds as they develop.

This is something I'm really keen to just share, because this is kind of ... this is our wee community. Some are on this page even, and its inspiring, because there is so much in the news thats impossible to keep abreast of,

Thank you for the anonymous sharing of another couple of runner bean plants, and a Dahlia tuber, which has since been taken.

Some more beans have been done up because they went down pretty quickly yesterday (yay, but also, please only take a packet or two, and please remember to share some back to a seed library, any seed library, after you've let the best pods dry off and go brown on the plant).

For anyone interested in seed libraries, this is a very inspiring seed library project happening over in Waldronville and I am really interested in sharing this particular post. See, many seedsavers have this interest in story.

I have a couple of crosses in the white seeded sunflowers this year.

The Broad Bay seed/plant swap is on today, at 2pm in room 4 of Broad Bay school. Come and get heritage tomato seed, heritage beans, other bits and pieces. Be part of Ōtepoti's growing seedsaving community as we adapt seed to our climate, garden for me tal and physical health and build community

Seed from each of the selected pumpkins that will be grown out again this year.

#seedswap 2pm next Sunday 24th August, Broad Bay school. Please bring surplus seeds, any seeds special to you, and pick up some new seeds, there will be tomato multi packs and beans for anyone to help in the Ōtepoti grow outs of tomatoes, beans, capsicums, by sharing couple of fruit back in Autumn

Please join us in building seedy resources for Ōtepoti! Still a lot of tomato seeds for everyone wanting to grow tomatoes, with agreement to share some fruit back in Autumn for seed for 2026 growing season. It's important to be involved in something constructive and beautiful amongst all the news.

Thankyou Leanne; handcrafted packets of Italian parsley, creative, mindful, and in service of community seed sharing. Some of these will got to the Port Chalmers community seedshare in Port Chalmers public library (thank you also to Debbie and Maloney)

This low winter light on these icy mornings does something for my brain 😍 I'm not a photographer, I can't capture its true beauty

Thank you to Fiona for sharing some White Iceicle radish seed. I will process these and get them out into the library but probably also grow some out here to keep a supply of seed as its very popular

Thank you to the beautiful Jae for sharing some heirloom tomato and some chilli seed to the library. It is such a privilege to see these seeds as they move around our community. I feel so incredibly lucky to see these varieties as they come and go, season after season.

Who out there in Otepoti is able to help me build up tomato seed for a good cause? Good cause as in free seedy resources for all people. Im also planning to do this with beans, so if you'd prefer to grow beans, im going to get tomatoes out first and probably get onto beans mid August.

This is a direct share from IFL Science, not the actual paper referenced therein, which is research suggesting that the seasons are changing: www.facebook.com/share/p/15Hf...

I have been collecting tomato seed for years to stock the seed library. I have a problem, however, in that it all needs regular growing out and I dont have room. It would be a huge shame for Dunedin to lose this seed, so I have a wee plan. www.facebook.com/share/p/1F6J...

Updated seed library list for #Ōtepoti www.facebook.com/share/p/15nP...

Photos from Bunny Burrows Montessori #seedsaving #stem #steam #meaningful #purposeful #occupation in #education

I'm posting this not for so much a discussion, but transparency (as last time). Whilst some may see politics as having no place here, it's this seed libraries position that to be apolitical is a privilege that leads to exclusion of voice and failure to promote diversity in all of our communities.

Opportunity for the community in Nelson to come together, share knowledge and learn new skills in order to build and participate in seedsaving network.

Thank you to Sue from Musselburgh #community #garden, I was allowed to collect a wee few #Skirret #seed to see if we can get some to pop. Will be keen to get this veg out and about. #seedsaving #seedlibraries 🤎🌱🐝 🇳🇿💚 📷 #savesharegrow #Ōtepoti #Aotearoa

What are barriers #saving and #sharing #locally grown #seeds? Is it #time? Is it #knowledge? Is it #confidence? Is it #Impairment? Is it #exclusion? #isolation? Is it #connection? #community? How can we be supported to further save and share seed? #Seedsaving is our deep #history and #future.

We need more #seedsavers. More saving and #sharing #seeds with each other, adapting seed, acclimating seed, ensuring all people have #access to seed, especially those who can't afford it. We need this seed saved and shared to #community #gardens, #kindies, #schools, #resthomes,#hospitals. 🌱🇳🇿💚📸

🇳🇿🌱 #seedsaving #savesharegrow #humanoccupation #ordinary #revolutionary ##seedlibrary #autumn 💚 This is how we can build and strengthen community and ensure access to meaningfful resources for all people.

#seedsaving for #tomato #seed using #fermentation method. #savesharegrow #seedlibraries #mārā 🇳🇿🌱💚

#Tomato and #cucumber seed processing for #Ōtepoti #seedlibraries and #seed #sharing #mārā 🌱🇳🇿

Thank you to Jean, who dropped off some tomato seed. These will all be bagged up and set about the place in winter. For anyone else who is saving seed, if you have surplus, share it around your local community.

Debbie sent 📸 through from Port Chalmers, #Ōtepoti. Remember, seed sharing and #seed #libraries look different in every #community, reflecting the #culture of that community. Sometimes it's all packaged up in funky, arty envelopes, sometimes the name is written on dried seedpods.

Thank you Jae who has dropped off their tomatos and tomato #seeds to finish processing here as they have urgent family situation to attend to.There's something so special about this wee #seedsaving #community in #Ōtepoti, the #sharing, people contributing what they can and using what they need.🤎🌱🐝