Springbrook Community Seed Bank

Springbrook Community Seed Bank is a group dedicated to seed saving and distribution throughout the Springbrook Community. 

 

Seed and seedlings are usually available from "Sophies Stall" in the weekends. To see what seeds are available or what seedlings are in season please contact Dee directly as the information changes regularly.

To get involved and find out more, contact Dee on dee.kempson@gmail.com or talk to her on the stall most weekends. 

Also check out the Springbrook Community Food Growers Facebook page for information about gardening on Springbrook.

10^th May 2020

Community Seed Bank and Garden Club News

So…. It’s been the season for the “C-word” …. Endlessly !

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Firstly, Garden Club meetings will be resumed in due course every two months.

To be notified of dates and venues of meetings please contact dee.kempson@ gmail.com to be put on the email list for such, or ring Gina on 0755 335 061. These email-outs also include updated Master Lists of what varieties are available from the Community Seed Bank. These seed samples are freely given and the Bank is a volunteer run community project. We, as always, are grateful for donations and seed samples given, without which, this project would not exist. 

Secondly, Seed Bank news … I think we can all be very pleased with ourselves for getting this community resource in place when we did. During “Lock-Down” I packetted and disseminated more samples than I could keep count of: very pleasing with respect to our aim of Food Sovereignty. And an encouraging number of new roadside stalls have popped up too. Although I have not yet had time to update our Seed Bank Master List, please feel free to make a request from the last list sent out, or of anything you are looking for and I will respond. You will also note the number of recipients of our Garden Club email-out list has grown dramatically…. “The pathway to Paradise is a wheel barrow wide”….

Our collective appreciation and gratitude must be offered up to the following people:

Pearl Stacey – Patron  $1000.00 donation for start up costs

Alf Finch of Eden Seeds, Greenpatch Seeds, Diggers’ Seeds, Joern and Susan for seedstock too; Lesley Varney, Chris Kempson, Chris Piper, Echo Valley Farm, Janie Simmonds for $$$, Springbrook Men’s Shed for the offer to grow out varieties for seed for the bank and for fridge storage, Kay Laing for a fridge also, and our seed packetting and stock maintenance crew, (in situ training for in-house seed banking processes) …. for the 110 + hours you have put in, without which, putting the seed bank together simply would not have been possible; and Santo, for instruction to date on getting together a data base of the varieties’ traits and characteristics  - yet to be built… AND for the goodwill and support behind the scenes from the rest of our beloved community !!!

Bee Happy !  Maintain your sense of humous, and Live Well !     SALUTE !     dee

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5th June 2020

Well ... have been saving and using the root end of onions from meals after watching this video...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t58WTIJVOU

My pic shows my results....

but after watching this guy ....   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4wNpwPQRa8   .... I got really excited...   "Self Sufficient Me" is based on a small 3-acre property in SE Queensland Australia...

Will be sowing short day length red and brown onion seeds next week (ideal root sowing time), for the stall in due course ... and have germinants popping now of Bloomsdale Long Standing English Spinach, Ruby Red Chard (silverbeet), Cos Lettuce, Scarlet Frills Mustard Greens, Bok Choi, Sugarloaf Cabbage,  Cilantro Coriander, Marigolds..

Will have snowpeas, shelling peas, celery  etc for this Sunday's roadside stall... Peas don't like being with onions...  Companion Planting Charts will also be available for $10 of which $4 goes to the Seed Bank.

Bee Happy.  Keep Growing.   Thanks for your support and encouragement :-*.        dee & gina