Seedleaf Spring Soirée 2022
Dancing, music, food, drink, and having fun supporting Seedleaf!
Dancing, music, food, drink, and having fun supporting Seedleaf!
When: Saturday, November 6 from 6-8pm
Tickets: $15/person or $55/team (4 persons per team)
Join us as we celebrate the power and beauty of the arts and trees for Tree Week 2020! In this hour long performance, Nathaniel Thompson of the UK Opera Program will perform a selection of famous operas that include a tree focus. The event will be held at Seedleaf's London Ferrell Community Garden at 245 E. Third Street (next to the fire station). In the case of rain, the event will be reschedule for the following evening, October 17 at 6pm.
Tree Week is an annual week long celebration hosted by the Urban Forestry Initiative at the University of Kentucky. This event highlights all things tree related and the positive impact trees have on our lives. This event is free and open to the public. However, due to Covid-19 there are space restrictions for the in-person event and a ticket is required. Please visit Eventbrite to get your ticket.
If you wish to watch this event virtually, it will be streamed on Facebook, @UrbanForestLex
The Lexington Philharmonic will be starting their Saturday tour at London Ferrell Community Garden at 10am on October 10. For information on the entire route and dates visit: https://lexphil.org/events
Swiss chard is an exuberant and sometime wildly colorful cousin of beet root. It is a workhorse in the garden- it provides leafy greens for most of the year, tends to overwinter in our USDA zone (6b) and is relatively left alone by pests. However, despite its enticing appearance and ease of growing, it is often left unpicked in many Seedleaf garden plots because of its unfamiliarity. We are working to address that with the help of Ms. Angelia Drake, owner and operator of 'From the Heart Catering'. She will show us a quick and easy way to eat and enjoy Chard with basic ingredients. Tune in to watch on our Facebook Page (@seedleaflex).
Come Join Us! Volunteers are required to maintain social distancing guidelines and wear a mask. Please sign our volunteer waiver under the ‘Volunteer’ tab of this website. All gigs are cancelled if rain is forecasted.
The Community Gardener Training Series presents information on the local resources available to garden in community, wherever you may live. Additionally, we provide workshops that give participants skills with which to share and store their harvests. Workshops cover some basic horticultural practices but this is not a comprehensive survey course. The series is for individuals new to the possibilities of gardening and useful for seasoned gardeners who wish to build upon previously learned skills. Workshops range in topic from composting to water bath canning and tea-making. Participation is FREE to the public but we only have capacity for 30 and we require that participants sign up to attend the majority of workshops available. Please fill out the form below.
All Seedleaf events, gatherings and work hours will be cancelled until further notice. We hope to reschedule most events and gatherings, we just do not know when at this time.
We Love YOU!!! This Valentine’s day join Seedleaf as we celebrate the coming spring and the things we have planned for the 2020 growing season. We will have music, food, and a game of Loteria that the whole family can enjoy!
Don’t want your food waste to go to the landfill but you don’t have your own home composting system? Well, no problem! During Saturdays in February, Seedleaf is setting up at your favorite locations around town to collect YOUR food waste. For a small $5 fee per container you can dump your kitchen scraps, eggshells, even hair at our pop-up stops.
Waste you can drop off:
Coffee grounds, paper coffee filters, peels, rinds, trimmings from vegetables, shredded newspapers, shredded plain paper (non-glossy), eggshells, organically grown flowers, leaves, saw dust from untreated wood, paper tea bags, hair and newspapers.
Waste that is prohibited:
Meat, dairy, fish, cat poo, dog poo, animal litter, ashes, grease, ‘compostable’ plastic cups and straws, fabric tea bags, clothing, knives, magazines, bones.
Help us spread bad notes, cheer and cookies as we fundraise for Seedleaf! The singing festivities will start at the Loudon House, 209 Castlewood Drive, and wind its way through the North Limestone/Castlewood neighborhood.
To learn more, visit: https://www.facebook.com/events/2469465589829252/
Help Seedleaf grow in 2020 by donating to us during the Good Giving Challenge. The challenge provides matches for your donations and endowment prizes for local non-profits. Visit https://www.bggives.org/seedleaf to learn more.
‘Fall Finds, Cook and Dine’
A fine dining cooking class in support of Seedleaf
We hope you will join us for a fun, free potluck picnic event at the London Ferrill Community Farm, which is located beside Fire Station #1. All are welcome! This outreach event is made possible by a gift from Traditional Bank.
Our Educational Pavilion is up and ready to party. We hope you will join us for a fun, free potluck picnic event at the Seedleaf Community Farm, which is located behind the Biscayne Apartments just off of North Broadway.
The Bluegrass Junior Women's Club will be joining us for some garden maintenance. All are welcome! This outreach event is made possible by a gift from the E. E. Murray Family Foundation.
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Recent waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this! Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with the Lexington Public Library to help share information on two great ways that area residents can take care of our home food waste, either by composting, or using worms to assist with that breakdown (vermicomposting). Come with your questions for this free interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product.
Join us for a fun night of music and garden vibes as we celebrate summer successes in our 13 free u-pick community gardens. Seedleaf will be requesting donations in support of a big push in our fall gardening, and to continue to plant up the Seedleaf Community Farm. Music by the Possum Queens. You can get a free Kentucky Native glass when you sign up for our email newsletter, or join the Perennial Club. And we'll be raffling off some fantastic items--don't miss it!
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Recent waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this! Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with the Lexington Public Library to help share information on two great ways that area residents can take care of our home food waste, either by composting, or using worms to assist with that breakdown (vermicomposting). Come with your questions for this interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product.
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Recent waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this! Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with Good Foods Coop to help share information on two great ways that area residents can take care of our home food waste, either by composting, or using worms to assist with that breakdown (vermicomposting). Come with your questions for this interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product.
This Friday, ACOCW donates 10% of sales to Seedleaf. Visit in the morning and catch guest barista Ryan Koch dropping some fetching cappuccinos! (Warning: I am all thumbs behind the espresso bar, so I will prolly literally drop a beverage!) So make it a double and help us grow more this spring and summer!
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Recent waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this. Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with the Lexington Public Library (downtown branch) to help share information on two great ways that area residents can take care of our home food waste, either by composting, or using worms to assist with that breakdown (vermicomposting). Come with your questions for this interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product.
Kentucky Gives Day is May 14th! You can be part of the celebration by donating to your favorite nonprofit. This is a day to show your generosity and help support the many great organizations throughout the commonwealth (including Seedleaf!). Visit https://www.kygives.org to find out more.
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this!
Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with Whole Foods Market to help share information on using worms to assist with that breakdown (vermicomposting). Participants will build a simple compost bin and take home live worms. Come with your questions for this interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product. Cost $15
Contact Christine@seedleaf.org for applications. Submissions will be accepted through May 27.
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Recent waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this! Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with Whole Foods Market to help share information on ways that area residents can take care of our home food waste. Come with your questions for this interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product. This is part of a discussion series in honor of International Compost Awareness Week.
Recent studies estimate that 40% of the food grown in the US is never eaten and often ends up in our landfills. Recent waste audits in Fayette County show that nearly a third of our landfill-bound solid waste is organic and could be composted. You can do something about this! Seedleaf is glad to be partnering with the Jessamine County Public Library to help share information on two great ways that area residents can take care of our home food waste, either by composting, or using worms to assist with that breakdown (vermicomposting). Come with your questions for this interactive discussion of the process of food breakdown, and what area gardeners can do with the finished product.
Join Seedleaf to discuss some of the resources at hand to help you have a great summer garden this year. We'll share from our experience of growing 15 free u-pick community gardens over the past 11 summers--what plants and varieties work well, what don't, how to select seeds and transplants, and anything else you may be wondering about. We are glad to partner with the Jessamine County Public Library to make these spring lectures possible.
Join Seedleaf to discuss some of the resources at hand to help you have a great summer garden this year. We'll share from our experience of growing 15 free u-pick community gardens over the past 11 summers--what plants and varieties work well, what don't, how to select seeds and transplants, and anything else you may be wondering about. We are glad to partner with the Lexington Public Library (Downtown Branch) to make these spring lectures possible.
We are glad to be partnering with Whole Foods Market this spring one nickel at a time! We have been busy sowing seeds and preparing growing beds in our 14 free u-pick community gardens and it costs us about a nickel to get each plant going in the greenhouse space. You can help us grow more by taking your own shopping bag to Whole Foods—we get five shiny pennies every time you do from April 1st till June 30th!
We will also be offering several Compost 101 and Wormshop events at Whole Foods during this time. Stay tuned for dates on that!
Seedleaf’s Get In the Garden events are fun volunteer/learning opportunities for gardeners of any skill level. All ages welcome! These will occur throughout the growing season at various times of the week. Here’s when and where you can meet neighbors, give of your time, and have fun!:
Tuesdays, 5-6pm at the North Pole Community Garden—909 North Limestone (starts March 26th)
Wednesdays, 5-6pm at the Castlewood Community Garden—845 Bryan Ave (starts April 3rd)
Thursdays, 3-5 pm at the London Ferrell Community Garden—235 E Third St (starts March 21st)
Saturdays, 10-12 at the London Ferrell Community Garden—235 E Third St (starts March 16th)
Saturdays, 10-12 at the Roosevelt Community Garden—415 Roosevelt Blvd (starts March 30th)
Check the socials (Facebook, Twitter) if the weather looks iffy. We will cancel for rain/snow/hail.