Swap Native Plant Seeds at AC2023
Since 2017, one of the most valued parts of the in-person INPS Annual conferences has been the Annual Native Plant Seed Swap, which is organized as part of the INPS Native Seed Communities Initiative. As in the past, the swap will take place during the INPS 2023 Annual Conference on October 28, and all registered attendees may participate. Here’s how it works:
Seed Donors
If you tend native plants that set viable seed, please consider becoming a seed donor. You’ll need to prepare the seeds you contribute by drying and cleaning them as best you can. Place them in wide-mouth, lidded jars (plastic or glass) and label each jar clearly with the full common name of the parent plant and the county in which the seeds were found. If you know the plant’s scientific name, please include that as well.
Between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m., bring the seeds you want to share to the Seed Swap location, the Cook East/West meeting rooms on the first floor of the Monroe Convention Center. There you will be given a ticket that will allow you and one companion to enter the Seed Swap area during the first scheduled break in the conference program (10:30 to 10:55 a.m.) to collect seeds to take home. Conference attendees without tickets will be allowed to enter the Seed Swap area only during the lunch interval and the afternoon break.
Consumers
If you are a registered conference participant but not a seed donor, you too can take home seeds from the seed swap. During the lunch interval (11:40 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.) and the afternoon break (2:30 to 2:55 p.m.) all conference participants will have free access to the Seed Swap area in the Cook East/West meeting room. As in the past, INPS will provide envelopes.
Thanks to the efforts of many INPS members, the seed swap is always great fun as it furthers the INPS mission to create and support a critical mass of native plants in interconnected corridors throughout the state, to sustain the web of life.
Join Us!
Now is a great time to look at the native plants in the wild spaces around your home and consider what you might donate to the Seed Swap. For more information, check out the Growing Native Plants from Seed page.