Come join us in at a free community seed swap at Soul Food Farms in Vacaville.

November 15, 2025

10am-1pm

Soul Food Farms: 6046 Pleasants Valley Road, Vacaville, CA

Seed Swap Community Guidelines

Welcome to our seed swap! Sharing seeds is a beautiful way to grow plants, friendships, and a stronger community. To make sure everyone has a great experience, please follow these simple guidelines when preparing and labeling your seeds:

Preparing Your Seeds

• Clean & Dry: Make sure your seeds are fully dry and free of pulp, chaff, or plant debris so they don’t mold in storage.

• Reasonable Quantities: Share what you can—just a small packet is plenty! Remember, even a few seeds can grow into many more to share next season.

• Healthy Sources: Please only bring seeds from healthy plants. Avoid saving seeds from plants that showed signs of pests or disease.

• Open-Pollinated & Heirloom Preferred: Hybrid seeds may not grow true to type. If you’re sharing hybrids, just let others know.

Labeling and Packaging Your Seeds

A good label helps your seeds find the right home. Please include as much of the following as you can:

• Plant Name: Common name and variety name (e.g., “Tomato – Cherokee Purple”).

• Year Harvested: So people know how fresh the seeds are.

• Growing Notes (optional but helpful!): Any tips like “needs staking,” “good for containers,” or “bee favorite.”

• Please package your seeds in small seed sized envelopes.  These are often called banking envelopes.  We will have a few of these on site, but do not count on us to have enough for everyone.  The expectation is that your seeds will be packaged and labeled. 

Community Spirit

• Share seeds you’d be excited to receive yourself.

• Bring a seed and take a seed.  

• Take only what you’ll use so there’s plenty for everyone.

Together we’re growing a garden that’s bigger than any one of us. Thank you for being part of this community seed circle!

Any questions? Please email us at: hello@hdcgardens.com