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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Thank you to my father for sending through some Kakabeak seeds from his garden. Thank you to Joe for taking a package of seed down to their local seed library.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I'm pretty bad at going off into essay territory, I cant help it, and wet days mean I'm inside. So, in response to the shitshow that is the news, I had another we write today.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

What is threshing and winnowing? There are a number of ways we achieve bulk seed harvesting and cleaning, ready for getting it back out into the local community, with different tools and methods for different types of seed.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Last season, both white seeded, and a grown out variety of seeds that were originally F2 Procut Plum were growing out together here in #Ōtepoti. This year, on the eighth of September, these sunflowers germinated, and demonstrated immediately a cross between white seeded sunflowers and the procut

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Thank you to the delightful Jae, who has shared used ziploc baggies and excess tomato plants, the last of which will be on the stall this week.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Beetroot, Detroit Dark Red, will flower together next season, and we'll keep seed off the best 5 - 10 for sharing around Ōtepoti seed libraries

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

This week, I was gifted a box of bees by a good friend, have had no bees for a few months after I failed an Autumn merger. and having them back in the garden is just the best. I did apiculture after covid, as a way of managing my health and

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Can anyone identify these #eggs on the #maize leaves, they are in #Ōtepoti #Dunedin #new zealand and to me look like #frog eggs but I dont have frogs locally

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Summer sow guide, based on St Kilda, Ōtepoti, Aotearoa 🌿🇳🇿 🌱💚 www.facebook.com/share/p/1AfH...

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

And finally, Summer of 2025/2026 Seeds from this poppy will be made available to people as they share seed back to this wee seed library project in Ōtepoti. They are freesource and not to be sold, only shared. Details here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1Cpk...

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

These are photos from the same poppy seedline, and how it expressed in the Summer of 2024/2025, including a seedhead stripped by possibly a moth larvae?

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Here are the photos of this same seedline, from the summer of 2023/2024

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Who remembers this wee grow out back when Frieda was so much younger? Link to fb post with more photos, but here are four from 2022/23 Summer. www.facebook.com/share/p/1GwG...

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Rooted Salvia Amistad stems, koha of around $5 a stem, these four are in water and need to go over next few days, but I can offer heaps for anyone wanting to grab some for a border or whatever.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Valerianella locusta aka Mâcha aka Corn Salad aka Lamb's Lettuce I acquired (with permission) this speciman from the mara kai at school, as it was dropping its seed and is probably around two thirds ripe.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Interested to know if anyone else in Ōtepoti has noticed Tī Kouka flowering profusely this season? Or any other Native plants 💚📷 other parts of Aotearoa? I wonder if it's a Mast year?

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Wort Journal @wortjournal.com · 08/11/2025

Katie Hastings of Wales Seed Sovereignty tells the story of Welsh Black Oats in 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘵 #2, reflecting on questions of ownership, commons, heritage and belonging, and asking "what does it mean to say that these oats are 'ours'?". Pic: Andy Pilsbury for the Gaia Foundation. #plantstories #seedsaving

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Tomatoes from Sara, please help, I dont have room for all these plants!

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Thank you to Sara for dropping over some excess tomatoes! They've been potted up in fours, some as reds (likely to be money maker), and yellows, which include Glimpse, that we dont have in the tomato catalog,

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Donkey and horse manure The horse manure shelf has been stocked up with more bags of manure on the St Kilda stall. This development is a bit of a foray into promoting inclusion. We have a group of individuals supported by Community Care Trust to bag up the manure.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Romanesco broccoli has been pretty much pest free since the beginning, despite white butterfly about. I plan to grow it out again, with seed from a different supplier as well, hopefully get the heads a bit more substantial next time, and will add in fresh seed. (Planted too close together)

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This is an easy flower for beginning a seedsaving journey. It's Calendula. And it's one where you can actually watch the seeds as they develop.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This is something I'm really keen to just share, because this is kind of ... this is our wee community. Some are on this page even, and its inspiring, because there is so much in the news thats impossible to keep abreast of,

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Thank you for the anonymous sharing of another couple of runner bean plants, and a Dahlia tuber, which has since been taken.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Some more beans have been done up because they went down pretty quickly yesterday (yay, but also, please only take a packet or two, and please remember to share some back to a seed library, any seed library, after you've let the best pods dry off and go brown on the plant).

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

For anyone interested in seed libraries, this is a very inspiring seed library project happening over in Waldronville and I am really interested in sharing this particular post. See, many seedsavers have this interest in story.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The Broad Bay seed/plant swap is on today, at 2pm in room 4 of Broad Bay school. Come and get heritage tomato seed, heritage beans, other bits and pieces. Be part of Ōtepoti's growing seedsaving community as we adapt seed to our climate, garden for me tal and physical health and build community

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Seed from each of the selected pumpkins that will be grown out again this year.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

#seedswap 2pm next Sunday 24th August, Broad Bay school. Please bring surplus seeds, any seeds special to you, and pick up some new seeds, there will be tomato multi packs and beans for anyone to help in the Ōtepoti grow outs of tomatoes, beans, capsicums, by sharing couple of fruit back in Autumn

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Please join us in building seedy resources for Ōtepoti! Still a lot of tomato seeds for everyone wanting to grow tomatoes, with agreement to share some fruit back in Autumn for seed for 2026 growing season. It's important to be involved in something constructive and beautiful amongst all the news.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Thankyou Leanne; handcrafted packets of Italian parsley, creative, mindful, and in service of community seed sharing. Some of these will got to the Port Chalmers community seedshare in Port Chalmers public library (thank you also to Debbie and Maloney)

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This low winter light on these icy mornings does something for my brain 😍 I'm not a photographer, I can't capture its true beauty

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thank you to Fiona for sharing some White Iceicle radish seed. I will process these and get them out into the library but probably also grow some out here to keep a supply of seed as its very popular

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thank you to the beautiful Jae for sharing some heirloom tomato and some chilli seed to the library. It is such a privilege to see these seeds as they move around our community. I feel so incredibly lucky to see these varieties as they come and go, season after season.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Who out there in Otepoti is able to help me build up tomato seed for a good cause? Good cause as in free seedy resources for all people. Im also planning to do this with beans, so if you'd prefer to grow beans, im going to get tomatoes out first and probably get onto beans mid August.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

This is a direct share from IFL Science, not the actual paper referenced therein, which is research suggesting that the seasons are changing: www.facebook.com/share/p/15Hf...

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I have been collecting tomato seed for years to stock the seed library. I have a problem, however, in that it all needs regular growing out and I dont have room. It would be a huge shame for Dunedin to lose this seed, so I have a wee plan. www.facebook.com/share/p/1F6J...

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Updated seed library list for #Ōtepoti www.facebook.com/share/p/15nP...

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm posting this not for so much a discussion, but transparency (as last time). Whilst some may see politics as having no place here, it's this seed libraries position that to be apolitical is a privilege that leads to exclusion of voice and failure to promote diversity in all of our communities.

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St Kilda Seed Library @stkildaseedlibrary.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Opportunity for the community in Nelson to come together, share knowledge and learn new skills in order to build and participate in seedsaving network.

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