Seed Swap Sow and Grow
Saturday March 1st, 10.30-3pm
Maybridge Keystone Centre, Raleigh Way, Goring-by-Sea, Worthing, BN12 6JD
Transition Town Worthing’s Spring Fair will be a celebration of sustainable growing, making, selling, sharing, resilience and community. No better way to step into spring. Come and get your seedy supplies, find out about volunteering opportunities and community projects, enjoy some good refreshments and friendly company.
The heart of the fair is the seed swap itself. Come and search through the hundreds of packets of veg, herbs and flower seeds grown and saved locally, as well as ones from the Heritage Seed Library. Bring your own to swap or give a donation. There will be plants for sale too, from community groups and also Culberry Nursery.
Make a day of it, or pop in when you can. Don’t miss Dr Steve Millam from Chichester College doing an inspiring talk on ‘Balancing Your Garden’ at 11.30am with Q&A. From 12 noon there will be wood-fired pizza slices in our lovely woodland garden. And at 1.30pm there will be a mindfulness session in the yurt on ‘Inner & Outer Activism’ with Liane from The Sustainable Mind.
All day (til supplies run out) a number of local projects will be selling lovely products like dried flowers (Breathing Spaces), soaps (Handmade by Hajira), salts (Sustainable Sussex Chilli Farm), honey and beeswax products (Pollinator Pioneers and Worthing Beekeepers), jams, chutneys (TTW), olive wood decorations (Story of Sumud), prints (for Seeds of Resilience) and willow baskets (Willow Weaving by James). Coffee Cycle will be doing barista coffee and there will be the usual tea and cakes too.
You’ll be able to find out about Worthing Food Partnership, Green Tides green-space groups network, The Wildflower Trail, Worthing Homes’ nature projects (including a seed bomb activity for children), Sid Youth’s Junior Club at Maybridge, the RSPB, Worthing Community Chest, Brinsbury College’s horticulture courses, and more.
Come and join us! Entry is free, donations welcome. Bus stops, trains and on-street parking nearby.
