Events & Classes

Come learn about how to plan your vegetable garden for the year and the best crops and techniques for spring.

Just register at the link below to receive the Zoom link to join.

Six-packs of spring seedlings will be available as well as Seed St. Louis seed packets, t-shirts, and stickers.

Available Varieties: Red butter Salanova Lettuce, Green Towers Lettuce, Chun Mei Bok Choy, Georgia Southern Collards, Lacinato (Dino) Kale, Caraflex Cabbage (green), Omero Cabbage (red), Minuteman Cauliflower, Azur Star Kohlrabi and a variety pack of Broccoli selected so that you have a staggered harvest. Seedling six-packs will be $4.00 each.

Date & Time: Saturday, April 1, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Location: Seed St. Louis Carriage House, 3815 Bell Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108

Free street parking is available along Bell Avenue. The sale will be located outside behind the Carriage House building. We will accept both cash and credit for payment.

Have you ever wanted to compost your own organic waste but didn't know where to start? During this class, we'll go over all the composting basics including what composting is, different ways to compost, and what we can do with compost. Just register at the link below to receive the Zoom link to join.

Our Summer Plant Sale includes individual veggie and perennial seedlings as well as Seed St. Louis seed packets and merchandise. We will also have sweet potato slips! All of the varieties, including several new ones, are recommended by Seed St. Louis staff and our local grower DIG Annuals and Perennials. They include tomatoes (sweet and hot), peppers, eggplant, basil, parsley, and tomatillos.

We will also have perennials for both food production and pollinators again this year. These will include lavender, rhubarb, clustered mountain mint (a native), sea kale, red-veined sorrel, and wild arugula. Both veggies and perennials will be sold as individual plants for $3.00 each (veggies) and $5.00 each (perennials). Sweet potato slips will be $4 for 6 slips. We will accept both cash and credit for payment. The sale will run from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and will be located outside at our Carriage House building at 3815 Bell Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108. Free street parking is available all along Bell.

Although the focus of growing your own food is often on things like fruits and vegetables it is also entirely possible to grow the calorie-dense foods that sustain us. In this class, we go over how to grow, process, and store staple crops including roots, grains, dried beans and peas, and nuts. So if you've ever wondered how to grow these things this class will cover the best ones to grow in the St. Louis climate that are easy to process on a small scale. We also cover a large number of things including potatoes, grain peas, lentils, chickpeas, quinoa, sorghum, corn, millet, amaranth, hazelnuts, chestnut, and even edible acorns.

Bees and other insects are incredibly effective at moving pollen. We rely on them to pollinate our crops, wildflowers, and garden plants. However, recently, bees have been declining. While we often think of honey bees first, St. Louis has a whopping 200 species of wild bees, and those wild bees are responsible for much of the pollination in our gardens. During her talk, Nicole Miller-Struttmann, PhD, from Webster University shares some stories about the bees in your neighborhood, how she collaborates with volunteers like you to study them, and how you can help support them.

This is the most important time to prune your fruit and nut trees! Learn from Dean Gunderson, Director of Education here at Seed St. Louis, the basics of how to prune them properly so you can keep your orchard growing strong.

Believe it or not, now is the time to start planning your garden! School gardens are unique spaces for many reasons. Their season typically runs from September through May, with summer often being the time when the space is least utilized. Many school gardens operate with limited space and funding, and every school community has its own strengths, needs, and goals. This presentation offers both plant and hardscape considerations for building a productive, inclusive, and safe garden space well suited to your students, school community, and learning goals. We also covered Seed St. Louis resources and the ways in which we can support your school garden throughout the year.

The keynote presentation and three sessions that were streamed are now up on our YouTube channel!

The Community Agriculture Conference, which was both in-person and virtual this year, is an annual gathering for those from the gardening and urban agriculture communities. People of all ages and abilities were welcome to attend! For this 14th annual conference, we were excited to welcome Tyrean "Heru" Lewis from Heru Urban Farming as our keynote speaker. Thank you to our 2023 sponsor Forrest Keeling Nursery! The in-person conference took place at the Delmar Divine, the location of Seed St. Louis' office and future Demonstration Garden from 8:00 am-3:00 pm.