Save the Date!

Save the Date!

Join us for a garden side conversation at the giving garden at Como Park Lutheran Church.

Seed Saving- Pest Management- Harvesting Best Practices -And Surprises Galore!

Save the Date

Join us for a garden side conversation at the giving garden at Como Park Lutheran Church.

Seed Saving- Pest Management- Harvesting Best Practices -And Surprises Galore!

Urban Roots is again hosting the Rivoli Bluff Bash at the Rivoli Garden Farm! The MN SEED Project will be there sharing seeds for our avian neighbors in this amazing place. Stop by, do your farmers market shopping, make some garden inspired place based art and prairie up with the MN SEED Project! Hope to see you there !

It’s time for the annual D10 Como Park Community Council annual Ice Cream Social! Let’s celebrate a summer of neighborhood fun here with games, ice cream, music, art making and neighborhood resources with local organizations! Thanks to D10 for making this possible. And of course CCSL +the MN SEED Project will be there sharing seeds and ways to grow your garden and support our local flora and fauna!

Save the Date! We’ll have more information on the family friendly event centering sustainable practices and showcasing local organizations helping us choose a better path to a more abundant future. Of course we’ll have seeds to share! Find more information here

CCSL will be sharing seeds and kicking off the Como Grow a Row initiative at Growing for Good at Como Park Lutheran Church. Come taste honey, plant seeds, sign up to help fight hunger, decorate garden markers, learn about Lawns to Legumes and how to support pollinators and much more. Stay tuned for more details!

Join the MN SEED Project and many other artists, makers and community groups for the 2nd Springboard for the Arts SpringPOP. We’ll have seeds to share and we’ll be planting Partridge Peas for pollinators with our neighbors! Find the details here.

Como Park Lutheran Church is hosting it’s annual MN Food Share food drive in their parking lot on Sunday March 17th 12-2pm at the corner of Hamline and Hoyt. Last year Minnesotans experiencing food insecurity visited area food shelves 7.5 million times! Your help is needed and CPLC is making it easy with a drive up and donate event. See the items that are needed on the flyer and while you’re there pick up seeds and growing information for the Como Grow a Row campaign. Help us supply our neighbors with fresh locally grown nutritious fruits, vegetables, and herbs during this growing season.

For more information contact Sue Brogger at Sue@comoparklutheran.org

or Dawn Lamm (dlamm@comoseedlibrary) with any questions.

It’s time to get your hands in the soil and propagate some prairie plant joy for your pollinator gardens with this oh so easy method called winter sowing!

We”ll have seeds , soil, other materials  and a limited supply of containers. To make sure there’s enough for everyone, please bring any clean translucent plastic containers like: 

Quart size take-out containers 

Milk jugs Liter or larger water or beverage containers 

Greens containers

Limited to 30

Registration Required

Registration link: https://forms.gle/ky6eEQPrdSqk7sYM9

Volunteer form link: https://forms.gle/fHYW8jZsFXjVE5qZ6

Join Parks and Rec and the Como Community Council for a Pancake Breakfast and Winter Activities at North Dale Recreation Center. Try snowshoeing, cross country skiing and skating before you warm up with a bonfire and s’mores. After all the fun outside, head inside for a pancake breakfast (sponsored and served by Bethel Lutheran), neighborhood resources, Now Make Art kids activity and, new this year, A LOCAL MAKER’S MARKET!

Como Community Seed Library will have seeds to check out and ways to get growing now!

It’s time for the National Seed Swap Day Seed Swap 2024!  

National Seed Swap Day

Saturday 1/27/24

1-3 pm

Historic Como Streetcar Station

1224 Lexington Pkwy N.

St. Paul MN 55117

Join us for an epic seed trading session with your neighbors! Everyone is welcome from the newest gardeners to veteran cultivators!  All seed types are welcome too like native plants, herbs, veggies, annual flowers, perennials, and more. *

Here are a few guidelines to get you started:

For ease of trading we recommend having seeds packaged ready to trade with the suggested following information available for each seed type:

Common Name

Scientific Name(if known)

Date Collected (grown)

Location

Grower/ Collector

Commercial or Locally Grown Seed

Any other pertinent information/ seed story

A picture of the plant/flower/fruit that are from the seeds if you have one.

*Please no patented seed. Here is information on why.

Not sure about packaging? We will have envelopes and other packaging resources available to help you with your seed sharing or check out this link to a creative zero waste option:

https://www.gardensillustrated.com/garden-advice/how-to/make-your-own-seed-packet

This is a free drop in event!

Free limited parking is available in the parking lot and on-street but the streetcar station is easily accessible via the metro transit bus line. No registration is necessary but we encourage you to arrive early for the best seed trade selections!  Masks are welcome. We encourage all participants to consider the health of their neighbors as this is an indoor event.

This wonderfully seedy venture is a collaboration of the District 10 Como Community Council and the Lawns to Legumes Demonstration Neighborhood Grant Educational Fund for the Saint Paullinators of South Como, The MN SEED Project, and Capitol Region Watershed District!

Want to volunteer your time and talents helping with this swap? Sign up here for the opportunities that suit you!

For updates and to share sneak peeks of your seeds follow and share your enthusiasm on Facebook and Instagram

Here are some photos from last year’s National Seed Swap Day Seed Swap

The MN SEED Project will be sharing seeds and winter sowing secrets at the White Bear Lake Winter Farmers Market. For more information check here!

Save the Date for this last of the MN SEED project seed collection events in 2023. Thank you to Frogtown Green for sharing this wonderful large community stewarded garden with the MN SEED Project for late season seed harvesting. For updates and to join the MN SEED Project email MNSEEDProject@gmail.com

Save the Date for this skill-share hosted by Urban Roots! We’ll learn more seed saving hacks and ways to preserve our 2023 collected seed! For updates and to join MNSEED email MNSEEDproject@gmail.com.

Save the date for music, food, local artisan goods and lots more….including seeds!!!!

Join the MN SEED Project at this wonderful family focused event at Gibbs Farm! We’ll have seeds to share and process and other fun shared from the restored prairie! Gibbs farm will have all things apple including samples from their heritage orchard!

Join the MN SEED Project at the newly expanded Capitol Region Watershed District Campus. Thank you to CRWD for hosting the MN SEED project for this 3rd growing season to collect seeds and learn more about this LEED certified campus and how it’s integrated systems demonstrate more eco-friendly practices conserving water and all it sustains. The MN SEED Project is deeply grateful to CRWD for funding our seed to seed community science project and sharing our vision for a locally adapted native seed network! You can register at the new MN SEED Project website for this workshop as well as all other MN SEED Project events or follow this Eventbrite link. MN SEED Project members who reside in the Capitol Region Watershed District receive a discount. Please email MNSEEDproject@gmail.com for the code.

This the first of two opportunities to collect seed at Monarch City this 2023 season. Thank you to Frogtown Green for hosting the MNSEED Project! To register please use the following Eventbrite Link. The MN SEED Project continues it’s work this season with generous funding from Capitol Region Watershed District . Residents of CRWD and the MN SEED Project members please reach out for further information on special CRWD participation opportunities to MNSEEDProject@gmail.com.

Save the date for music, food, local artisan goods and lots more….including seeds!!!!

This MN SEED Seed Collection Event at Gibbs Farm is the first of the 2023 series. This will be our third season collecting seeds in this restored prairie. Thank you to Gibbs Farm and the Ramsey County Historical Society for hosting and generously sharing this wonderful site with the MN SEED Project Community. This year you can register using Eventbrite. Here is the link. The MN SEED Project continues it’s work this season with generous funding from Capitol Region Watershed District . Residents of CRWD and the MN SEED Project members please reach out for further information to MNSEEDProject@gmail.com.

Join The MN SEED Project at the Frogtown Green Climate Carnival for some seedy fun and plant and pollinator tattoo craziness for the whole family!

Have an open pollinated heirloom tomato plant that you’d like to grow again next year? Stop by the CCSL stall and find out the basics of saving seeds from tomatoes and other fleshy fruits. We’ll also have information on Zinnia seed saving and seeds to succession plant for fall harvesting!- Canceled Due to Severe Weather Potential

Save the Date for this Urban Roots Event at Rivoli Bluff! Stay tuned for more details and to sign up for MN SEED email MNSEEDProject@gmail.com