Seed St. Louis

Help expand access to fresh, healthy food across the St. Louis region by sponsoring Fair & Fare on the Farm happening on September 26th! 🫑🍅🥬

Join our existing sponsors by July 1st to be included on the printed and digital invitation. Sponsors enjoy benefits such as special recognition throughout the event, tickets to enjoy a Farm to Table dinner, and more!

Individuals can also be an event sponsor through our Grower sponsorship! Learn more about sponsorship opportunities at the link in the comments. 💚

You may think the planting season is over, but there are definitely things you can get in the ground from seed!

🌱 Beans & cowpeas
🥒 Cucumbers
🫛 Edamame
🍉 Melons (Smaller-sized ones would be faster! There may not be enough time for larger melons. Make sure to check the seed packet for the days needed to harvest.)
🌱 Summer squash & zucchini

We're talking volunteers for our final spring wrap-up! This spring, we welcomed many a volunteer and developed new relationships and connections within our garden network. So far this year, we've welcomed 617 volunteers who have spent over 1,900 hours helping us support 48 gardens and also prepare for and put on our seedling sales. 💚

We also launched our Adopt a Garden program, a 3-year service commitment to a network garden, and welcomed our first two partners in this capacity. Additionally, we hosted winter and spring community gardener meet-ups, which brought together over 20 community gardeners to discuss topics like engaging garden members and examples of how to implement and sustain a communal gardening model.

Our next class in partnership with the St. Louis County Library is Grapes & Kiwis: Trellises, Pruning and Care! It will be this coming Thursday, June 18, at 2:00 pm at the Rock Road Library Branch (10267 St. Charles Rock Road, St. Ann, MO 63074).

Sign up at the link in the comments!

We are also teaching this class on Monday, July 6, at 2:00 pm at the Mid County Library Branch.

We're excited to be back at the Green Living Festival on Saturday, July 11th, at the Missouri Botanical Garden! Along with all the great exhibitors and vendors, they have so many workshops to attend during the event. Don't forget, this event is free with your garden admission, and there is free admission for St. Louis County and City residents until 12:00 pm on Saturdays!

Add the Facebook event to your calendar at the link in the comments!

It's time for another spring wrap-up! This time it's for our School Program. 📚️

We wrapped up our Seed to STEM classes at Mullanphy-Botanical ILC (Investigative Learning Center) and accepted both Hodgen Elementary and Mann Elementary into our Seed to STEM program for the 2026-2026 school year! Since the beginning of March, we have provided direct education to over 250 students and provided 3 garden-based professional learning opportunities for 20+ educators.

We began a partnership with the MO Division of Youth Services, which so far has included education from our staff throughout the summer. We have also accepted 3 schools into our 2026 Starting a Community Food Project summer cohort. Last but not least, we have provided more than $1,000 worth of free seeds and seedlings to school and youth gardens in our network! 🥬

🌿🌿 It's that time of year when we're all getting a bumper crop of weeds. They seem especially abundant this year with the great weather and rain we've been having.

In our latest blog post at the link in the comments, read our tips for keeping weeds under control in your garden space!

DIG - Annuals and Perennials is having their final annual sale at our Carriage House on Saturday, June 13th!

🌸 There will be lots of plants available for sale, including native perennial plugs for $1 each!

Saturday, June 13
10 am-3 pm
Seed St. Louis Carriage House, 3815 Bell Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108

Now that we're into June, we'll be posting some spring wrap-up posts! First up is our Community Project program:

Our community projects staff were very busy this spring with 33 garden and orchard expansions! This included:

🔨 75 double and single raised beds
🌿 36 trellises
🌱 203 yards of soil
⚒️ 287 tools
🧺 13 benches and picnic tables
🌱 8 compost bin systems
🫗 6 IBC water storage totes
🍏 92 fruit trees and shrubs
🌻256 understory perennials

Awesome job to our staff, garden members, and all of the volunteers who helped out!