Heritage & Healing: Keeping the Seeds

Learn different harvest techniques and timing, dry seed extraction and cleaning, wet seed processing and fermenting, storage and labelling.

As well as getting hands-on, there will be space to share our seed stories and experiences with growing. We’ll also discuss ideas and strategies for seed justice in Scotland and around the world.

Bring your seeds to be processed: pea, bean and brassica pods should be dried and crispy for podding; tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers can be brought as whole fruits; squash and courgette should be left on the plant until they harden into gourds and marrows; wildflower, lettuce and other seeds should be gathered as whole dried seed heads. Anything else, bring it along and we’ll work it out together!

About the Organisers

Glasgow Seed Library is a collection of seeds and a community of growers. The library stocks organic and open-pollinated vegetable, herb and flower seeds for everyone to borrow, grow and save. By learning to save and share seed locally, we can nurture unique varieties and adapt our plants to a changing Scottish climate.

Springburn Winter Gardens Trust (SWGT) primary purpose is to save the A Listed Winter Gardens putting it back in to the community for the benefit of local people in a nurturing, sustainable way

The Trust was formally established in July 2014 as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) to protect and celebrate the area’s heritage infrastructure past, present and future.

Accessibility

Springburn Auditorium is fully wheelchair accessible. The park has tarmac paths throughout and is accessible.