EAT South

16/01/2025

Want to save seeds? Here's a free seed saving guide from the Organic Seed Alliance.

14/01/2025

For our volunteers who helped make and put bulk seeds into envelopes. Here's a chisel created in the 1800s to quickly cut paper for making seed envelopes. A little wonky, but after you've folded 200 marigold seed packets, you might want to make one!

Seed Bag Chisel, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY, ca. 1830, Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon: 1950.1642.1. John Mulligan, photographer.

13/01/2025

If you have a container garden or a small growing space, you can still have okra! Several varieties grow on compact plants that will even work in a pot!

Move over, okra. There's a new star in the catalog:

💎Cajun Jewel Okra💎

This heirloom okra has been a local favorite in Cajun country since the 1950s! It's perfect for home gardeners:

💚Dwarf-type, 2½-4 ft. tall spineless plants produce an early crop of tender 1 in. diameter pods up to 8 in. long.
⏰Ready to harvest in just 53 days.
🍴Excellent flavor.
🌎Widely adapted.

Grab a pack of seeds: https://www.southernexposure.com/products/cajun-jewel-okra/

13/01/2025

Thank you WSFA-TV for stopping by Seedy Saturday! https://www.wsfa.com/2025/01/12/eat-south-holds-8th-annual-seedy-saturday/ #

Eat South held its eighth annual “Seedy Saturday” for community members to come and get free seeds and resources for their home gardens.

12/01/2025

When we have tornadoes, we load trucks with chainsaws and supplies and take care of people. L.A. is too far to drive, of course, but we can support the groups doing the work. Chef Kisha lived and worked in L.A. and recommended South La Cafe.

COME NOW! We have a TON of great donations we need to get to fire relief orgs, first responders and families displaced! Tag orgs and individuals, they can come now and anytime today until 4pm and we will load them up. South LA Cafe, 1700 Browning Blvd, 90062. FYI we are still taking donations of water, gatorade, dried goods, toilet paper, hygiene products, baby formula and bottles, diapers and wipes (no clothes please). Financial donations are also needed - please make at the link in our bio. 🙏❤️

12/01/2025

Scenes from Seedy Saturday 2025...our biggest seed celebration, yet!

Thank you volunteers who packed seeds, made envelopes, set up and took down tables. Your work made it the most organized seed event ever.

Thank you community members who brought even more seeds, pots, plants, envelopes, bags, and other garden supplies. This is what it's all about.

Thank you community groups for sharing your expertise with us!

Thank you for keeping us all warm and cozy in the Global Classroom and for building an excellent collection of gardening books!

Thank you Community Adaptation Program, for making the event possible.

Thank you and for donations. Your plants will grow all over Montgomery this year!

11/01/2025

Thank you Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority for donating herb seeds and envelopes to Seedy Saturday! We will miss you Sat and hope you have wonderful Founders Day.

The AKAs provide support for school gardens in Montgomery, Macon, and Lowndes Counties. Members are pictured here at Wares Ferry Elementary with Master Gardener and Omega Dean Fowler.

Envelopes, snack baggies, pens and markers are all helpful contributions to Seedy Saturday, if you don't have seeds to bring.

See you Jan 11, 10am, Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library, 245 High Street, for Seedy Saturday 2025.

10/01/2025

Getting ready for Seedy Saturday! So grateful to be in doors at the Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library! See you Saturday, 10 am, 245 High Street.

09/01/2025

Get your Montgomery-made compost at Seedy Saturday! THIS Saturday, January 11, 10 to 12, Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library 245 High Street.

09/01/2025

Beware of scams - I've noticed some posts/comments (not from us) connected to our events selling space for vendors. We do not sell spaces for vendors. I've tried to delete the posts, but know that everything at Seedy Saturday is free as are our future classes.

07/01/2025

New Years story time with peas!

Please join us at the Rufus Lewis branch tomorrow, January 8 at 10 AM for story time:
Shante Keys and the New Year's Peas by Gail Piernas-Davenport
Shante Keys loves New Year's Day! But while Grandma fixed chitlins, baked ham, greens, and cornbread, she forgot the black-eyed peas! Oh no-it'll be bad luck without them! So Shante sets out to borrow some from the neighbors.

07/01/2025

Make plans now to go to Birmingham for this talk by founder and farm of Fountain Heights Farms.

Birmingham Public Library Department of Archives presents its 22nd Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture on Human Rights.

Join M. Dominique Villanueva, co-founder of Fountain Heights Farms, for an inspiring and thought-provoking lecture on how urban farming serves as a pathway to liberation and justice. In this talk, Dominique explores the historical legacy of Black agriculture, the transformative power of reclaiming land, and the interconnectedness of collective liberation. Learn how initiatives like Fountain Heights Farms are fostering community resilience, food justice, and cross-community solidarity. Discover why supporting mutual aid, urban farming, and land justice efforts is essential for building a future where everyone can thrive. Together, we’ll reflect on how small actions can create powerful, lasting change.

This talk will take place in the Arrington Auditorium on the fourth floor of the Research Library.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact Catherine Oseas Champion at 205-226-3630.

07/01/2025

OMG! Seedy Saturday is five days away! Take a look around your shed or garage, dust off those pots that have been collecting in the corner (please keep the spiders), and bring them and any garden materials you don't need. The tool (and free compost) tent will be on the McDonough Street side by the library's fountain. (We don't want to take tools and pots into the library.)

06/01/2025

When we're not packing 1000 packages of marigold seeds, we like to work on tool maintenance this time of year - really, keeping your tools in shape is an all year activity, but in winter we spend a little more time sharpening shovels and oiling handles.

✂️🪚𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐋𝐒!🪚✂️

A few simple practices will help to preserve quality tools for decades of use. After a tiring day in the field, some of us (ahem... 👀) miiiiight put our tools away dirty, which allows metal blades to rust and wooden handles to dry out.

Taking better care of our tools means that we spend less time struggling with rusty, dull, and brittle tools -- and more time caring for our farms and gardens. A win-win!

Learn about routine tool maintenance over on our blog. Click bit.ly/3T6UL3p for more info! 🪚✂️

06/01/2025

Counting down until Seedy Saturday 2025! Want to connect with farm & garden programs in Montgomery? Capital City Master Gardener Association, City of Montgomery Parks and Recreation-MGM, Zizi’s Bee Company LLC, Legacy Heritage, Alabama Herb Society, Children's Museum of Montgomery, Tuskegee University Urban Agriculture Innovation Center, FreshGreens Market, and others will be there to connect you with classes, vegetables, and other food & farm information.

06/01/2025

Thank you volunteers! 22 people stopped by Highland Gardens Community Center to sort and pack seeds for Seedy Saturday.

Join us Saturday, Jan 11, 10 am, Global Classroom Juliette Hampton Morgan Memorial Library, 245 High Street.

05/01/2025

Looking for flowers? You'll find cosmos, coreopsis, marigolds & more. Vegetables? zucchini, cucumber, tomatoes, okra, watermelon, peas, beans, lettuce... what will you bring?