buy, sell or exchange seeds, seedlings and plants AND OTHER GARDENING ESSENTIALS.
learn GROWING TIPS AND BEST PRACTICES from GARDENING experts & COMMUNITY AG speakers.
enjoy the comradery of a community of growers and wHAT it means to
"be a good relative".
READ MORE ABOUT EVENT VENDORS AND SPEAKERS BELOW.
SPEAKERS & presentations
FEATURED VENDORS & entertainment
AGENDA ~ FESTIVAL ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE
MORNING
festivities
THROUGHOUT
THE DAY
AFTERNOON
festivities
10:00 a.m. - Gates Open
10:00 am - welcome!
10:15 am - Outdoors/Gardens
Alex Nikesh, Edulis Designs, FGCU
"RAPID COMPOSTING TECHNIQUES"
10:40 am - Hobart Hall
Tim Watkins, EcoVision
"Edible Landscape Design"
11:20 am - Hobart Hall
Dave Finnigan, Green Actioneers
"helping kids & their familes go green"
Garden Tours
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Music
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Exchange Plants & Seeds
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Buy Plants & Seeds
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Kids' Gardening Activities
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Ranger Rob
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Food Trucks
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Ask a Gardening Expert
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Gardening Vendors
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Labyrinth
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Raffles
Afternoon
12:00 pm Screened Porch
Live Music
contemporary favorites
12:00 pm - Hobart Hall
Tony Mauriello, Florida Native Plant Society - Coccoloba Chapter
"Eco-friendly Landscaping With Native Plants"
12:40 pm - Hobart Hall
Gerri Reaves, Audubon SWFL
"Preventing Bird-Window Collisions"
1:20 pm - Hobart Hall
Lauren Daniels-Judge, ECHO
plant propagation 101
2:00 pm - Outside the Labyrinth
Ann Smith, Green Tent Circle
nature connect EXERCISE -ECO-Spirtuality
3:00 p.m. - Event Concludes
EVENT SITE MAP
Held on the campus of UUCFM, the festival will offer over 40 plant & seed merchants and exchange vendors, music, food trucks, and a variety of expert speakers.
Please use this site map as a guide for parking.
BECOME A VENDOR, EXHIBITOR OR JOIN THE EXCHANGE
Do you have something to share or sell? The Seed and Plant Festival and Exchange is a great opportunity for vendors and speakers to share gardening expertise and experience as well as selling - or swapping - your gardening bounty with all who attend. Come learn how we all can benefit from planting and growing best practices that help restore and honor the land while creating a harvest for people. Join us as we practice being a good relative.
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