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#Ōtepoti
#Aotearoa 💚🇳🇿
#seedsaving builds #resourced #community using #science
#art #meaning #purpose
Adapt #seed as #climate changes #seedlibraries
#occupationaltherapy trained
#Savesharegrow
CerebralPalsy
MECFS
Inclusive af
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...
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...
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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...
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?
November 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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...
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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.
November 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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.
It's all learning, it's all valid, and it's all about connecting with and resourcing our communities.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's all learning, it's all valid, and it's all about connecting with and resourcing our communities.
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tomatoes from Sara, please help, I dont have room for all these plants!
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Tomatoes from Sara, please help, I dont have room for all these plants!
Luckily, with having so many beaches around, and a car that transports everything from bees, bamboo, manure, fishframes and seaweed, coffee grounds, hession sacks, we can collect every weekend, especially in the warmer months, which gets us away from town, & pays off in quality soil
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Luckily, with having so many beaches around, and a car that transports everything from bees, bamboo, manure, fishframes and seaweed, coffee grounds, hession sacks, we can collect every weekend, especially in the warmer months, which gets us away from town, & pays off in quality soil
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)
November 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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)
Really easy seeds to save, leave them to dry out somewhere cool and dry, when they're brown, into an envelope, name/colour, date, and theres your calendula for next year. Do up some for your local seed library or community garden.
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Really easy seeds to save, leave them to dry out somewhere cool and dry, when they're brown, into an envelope, name/colour, date, and theres your calendula for next year. Do up some for your local seed library or community garden.
I do truly appreciate it. I have a picnic table full of plants that ive just been giving to whoever shows up with seeds or whathaveyou, but if i can stock the stall knowing it wont all just get taken for nothing, it means the picnic table can be cleared more frequently!
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I do truly appreciate it. I have a picnic table full of plants that ive just been giving to whoever shows up with seeds or whathaveyou, but if i can stock the stall knowing it wont all just get taken for nothing, it means the picnic table can be cleared more frequently!
This is a small urban property, so it's good to remind ourselves that this can happen, we can try to mitigate it, and sometimes it will happen anyway. It can also pose opportunity for those of us interested in growing out these acts of natural happenstance for interests sake.
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is a small urban property, so it's good to remind ourselves that this can happen, we can try to mitigate it, and sometimes it will happen anyway. It can also pose opportunity for those of us interested in growing out these acts of natural happenstance for interests sake.
I have a couple of crosses in the white seeded sunflowers this year.
September 11, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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
August 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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.
August 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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 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
August 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
#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 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.
August 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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)
Some of these will got to the Port Chalmers community seedshare in Port Chalmers public library (thank you also to Debbie and Maloney)
August 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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)
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
August 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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.
August 2, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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.
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.
July 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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.
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.