SUNDAY 25 JANUARY 2026
Belper Community Hall
10am-2pm
Please book in advance. If cost is a barrier to your participation, please email us to ask for a discounted place.
You can choose a ticket price £10, £15, or £20 that feels right for you.
All tickets include:
- seed swapping with the Belper community seed bank (bring seeds, take away seeds!)
- a pack of perennial edible plant seeds from Earthed Up!
- hot local-plant-based soup and fresh locally baked bread
We will all swap seeds together in the morning, discuss topics such as the importance of seed saving, seed sovereignty and the future of growing locally, enjoy lunch and learn more about seed swapping.
Seed swapping
Share your seeds and the stories that go with them!
We will have seed from Earthed Up!’s growing, our own personal collections, and the Belper Permaculture Network seed library.
Fruit, vegetables, herbs, flowers. Will you bring your own seed to swap too? If not, it’s fine, there is plenty for everyone.
We will display the seeds in categories on tables. There will be envelopes for you to take a little or a lot. Included in your ticket price.
Keeping it local
Our focus for this event is on the seeds<>community axis. We must keep addressing questions like, “who has the seeds and the knowledge of seed and growing in our locality, our bioregion?” and “How can we capture, share and protect that knowledge?”
Gus and Fash of Pingle Produce will join us, sharing their experience of market gardening at Ashleyhay, in a short talk.
We’re hoping for there to be an open discussion and knowledge sharing, expanding from the seeds themselves to the local systems and networks that are also vital for improving resilience.
Location
Belper Community Hall is a great community space managed by a charity.
There is very limited car parking, which is fine because there’s ample space to secure bicycles and it’s a short walk from bus stops on Derby Road, from Belper rail station, and Field Lane and Belper Meadows Sports Club pay and display car parks.
Access
People of all ages, beliefs, ethnicities, identities are welcomed to our events. There is disabled parking with level ground from the parking into the venue. There is a ramp for wheelchair and pushchair access. There are toilets and changing facilities at the venue.
Origins and history of Seedy Sunday
Sharon Rempel organised the first Seedy Saturday event, held at VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver, Canada, in early 1990.
A group in Brighton and Hove have been growing their own annual Seedy Sunday event since 2002.
We are experienced event organisers and want to bring people together around agroecology and regenerating land.
Please see our refunds and cancellations policy.
“One wall of my living room is lined with shelves full of jars of my own seed. No wall decorations could provide more beauty, comfort, and security. Nothing else is such a good conversation piece. Here is a touchstone, a shrine, to what is essential. Here are memories of past seasons and accomplishments, and dreams for those to come. Here is a symbol that this is, indeed, hearth and home and homestead. Here is hope for the future.”
Carol Deppe – Breed your own vegetable varieties – The gardener’s guide to plant breeding and seed saving.
Earthed Up! 