The Great Botanic Seed Swap and Share
October 11, 2026 @ 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM ACDT
Calling all budding green thumbs! Gather the whole family for a fun community celebration of seeds and home gardening at the beautiful Adelaide Botanic Garden.
Saving seeds is a great way to cut down on gardening costs and protect biodiversity.
Come along to discover new seeds for your kitchen garden, connect with a community of like-minded garden lovers and have fun at this fete-like festival of seeds!
Bring in your saved seeds to share and leave with something new to plant in your garden.
Don’t have any saved seeds? Don’t worry! For a small donation, you can purchase tokens to swap for seeds.
There is a lot to see and do with fun stalls, hands-on kid’s activities, guided tours, live music, a sausage sizzle and more!
Activities
- Seed swapping table
- Drawing demonstration, and opportunity to have a go, by the Friends Botanical Art Group.
- Small paintings for sale – 10% proceeds to Seed Conservation Centre
- Bird snap table and nature crafts by the Diggers Club
- Plant a seed to take home and a touch table by the Botanic Gardens Education team
- Learn to fold origami seed packets, native seed giveaway, resources on wildlife friendly gardening, ID charts by Green Adelaide
- Tomato Tombola – spin to win a tomato starter kit, or lots of other prizes!
- Make a badge to commemorate the day
- “Which Bin?” Activation – talk to a member of the resource recovery team from City of Adelaide and ask all your recycling questions
- Sausage Sizzle
- Pods Hold Stories: seed drawing workshop. Get arty with local artist Stephanie Doddridge.
Program
- 10am –12pm: ABC Radio Adelaide Live outside broadcast with Jason Chong, including Talkback Gardening with Sophie Thomson from 11am
- 10am-12pm: Live music
- 11.30am –13.15pm: Tutti Arts “The Beekeepers” roving performances
- 12.15pm –14.15pm: Musical Plants performance with Flavio and Clarens