BPOC Seedkeepers Club

This is a space for BPOC (Black People and People Of Colour) to be guided through the full seed-saving process - from making growing containers, preparing the soil, planting seeds, pollinating plants, nurturing the growing plants, collecting seeds, designing seed packets and learning about we save seeds, how plants can be adapted to the unique Glasgow weather, ancestral seed relations, and the current state of seed sovereignty.

Participants will make pots for their plants, grow & care for them until they seed,
to then return at least 1 seed to contribute into a collective seed packet(s). The plants grown will be for windowsills only and plastic free. The plants grown will be varieties of chilli, tomato and bean.

This is a safe space to welcome growing into your home. It is for people who might not have a connection to land for various reasons - perhaps feeling a lost connection to a land of home, maybe lost through many generations. As well as learning and doing, it is a space for having conversations with people who share similar losses, and for building community.

Please complete this form to express interest in taking part.

This is a collaboration between Glasgow Seed Library and Woodlands Community.

Questions/Access

Each workshop will take place in a wheelchair accessible, heated indoor space, with accessible washroom facilities. The path from the main entrance on Ashley St has three steps, but there is a side entrance (gate) via the lane that is ramped and fully accessible. The inside of the building is all on one level.

Please email sapna@woodlandscommunity.org.uk if you would like to make an access request. We will provide some snacks and hot drinks - please get in touch if you have any food allergies.

About the organisers

Glasgow Seed Library
Glasgow Seed Library is a collection of seeds and a community of growers. The library stocks organic and open-pollinated vegetable, herb and flower seeds for everyone to borrow, grow and save. Throughout the year, Glasgow Seed Library organises free workshops, talks and events around seed skills, community growing and earth care.

Woodlands Community
Set up over a decade ago as a community garden space in the west of Glasgow, Woodlands Community now runs a variety of spaces, programmes and events that bring people together to empower community action and foster a sense of belonging.

**BPOC stands for ‘Black people, People of Colour’ and is a self-identifying term. While we use the term BPOC, we acknowledge the limitations of this terminology. This includes people who identify as Black, brown, people of colour, Global Majority, mixed-race, multiple heritage and/or are from the Global South, and/or are East and South-East Asian, West Asian, Asian, African, African-Caribbean, Caribbean, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, or First Nations, and diasporas. We use this term with the aim to address and overcome systemic barriers that people face directly or indirectly based on their ethnic or national identities, race or perceived racial identities, or the colour of their skin as per the Equality Act of 2010.