Events & Classes

Bring the family and join us for some outdoor fun! Enjoy live music with special guest Beth Bombara, state-fair themed games and activities, farm and garden tours, and a few more fun surprises... Purchase your own Seed St. Louis pint glass and receive two beers with your glass! You can pre-order your glass at the link below.

Free to attend and fun for all ages. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

This event will be held at the International Farm and Botanical Heights Community Garden, 4060 Folsom Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

This is part of a composting class series in partnership with Table to Garden, Willoughby Farm, and Seed St. Louis.

Static Systems: When large amounts of feedstocks are ready to be composted at one time, an aerated system makes the process easy and manageable. Actively aerated systems reduce the need for manual turning of the composting materials. In this class Dean Gunderson and Terri Riutcel share their experience with these scalable methods of bringing oxygen to your compost piles.

Cost: $12 per person
Location: Willoughby Heritage Farm, 631 Willoughby Ln, Collinsville, IL 62234

Come celebrate and raise a glass with us as we look back upon 40 years of cultivating communities and share a special glimpse into even more exciting things to come! Tickets to this 'extended cocktail hour' event will include a selection of beverages, catered hours d'oeuvres, entertainment, and more. Additional details coming soon.

This event will be located at the Delmar Divine, 5501 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63112

Our annual Garlic Sale will have hardneck garlic, softneck garlic, shallots, walking onions, and overwintering cover crop seed packets. We will also have row cover, hoops and sod staples if you would like to extend your growing season. Learn more about the varieties we'll have available at the link below.

Sale Location: Seed St. Louis Carriage House, 3815 Bell Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63108
Sale Time: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Seed St. Louis is partnering with our friends from Forrest Keeling Nursery and Greenscape Gardens to offer a special opportunity to purchase a variety of hard-to-find native and food-producing plants and trees, just in time for fall planting! Bring the kids and plan to stay a while - we'll have food and fun activities for all to enjoy. This event will run from 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Location: Greenscape Gardens, 2832 Barrett Station Road, Manchester, MO 63021

Whether using the school garden as a living laboratory, an outdoor workshop, or a place to study food systems and nutrition, the garden is the ultimate teaching tool to facilitate hands-on, integrated learning! This class will explore virtually how you can effortlessly integrate the garden into your curriculum. In addition, a variety of outdoor classroom management tips and tricks will be shared so that you can bring your students outside with confidence.

This is part of a composting class series in partnership with Table to Garden, Willoughby Farm, and Seed St. Louis.

Bokashi: Speed up composting by "pre-fermenting" kitchen scraps in a method distinct from composting. In this class you will learn how to layer all kinds food scraps, including meat and dairy, in a small bucket with a special "bran" of microbes to ferment, then simply bury them composting system to finish the in your yard or add to an existing composting system to finish the breakdown process.

Cost: $12 per person
Location: Willoughby Heritage Farm, 631 Willoughby Ln, Collinsville, IL 62234

Discover what you crops you can plant in the fall so you have fresh vegetables to enjoy in the winter and early spring. This class is in partnership with the St. Louis County Library. A recording of this virtual program will be posted to their YouTube channel within three business days.

Our Fall Seedling Sale will have variety trial winners, old favorites and some new varieties! Fall seedlings are sold as 4-packs for $3.50 each. The seedlings will include lettuce, red and green cabbage, bok choy and more. (You can read about each variety at the link below!) A planting guide for all of the seedlings being sold will be available for you to take home. We will also have seed packets, including cover crops, and Seed St. Louis merch t-shirts and stickers.

Sale Location: Seed St. Louis Carriage House, 3815 Bell Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108
Sale Time: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.

We will accept cash, credit, Apple Pay and Google Pay for payment. Free street parking is available all along Bell Avenue. Please bring your own tray or box if you are able!

This is part of a composting class series in partnership with Table to Garden, Willoughby Farm, and Seed St. Louis. Attend all four of the core classes and receive a voucher for a free registration Specific Topic class. More details are listed at the Register link below.

Compost Tumbler: Give it a spin! Tumbling composters are fully enclosed outdoors composting systems that are great if you are composting primarily food scraps or a small amount of material in general. Spin your food scraps and leaves into "black gold" with little physical effort.

Cost: $12 per person
Location: Willoughby Heritage Farm, 631 Willoughby Ln, Collinsville, IL 62234

*This event is now full!* For our summer school gardener meet-up, we will have local artist, Ashli England, leading a class on making natural gouache paint from nature and paint brushes from the yucca plant. During this meet-up, get to know other school gardeners while you create paint and paintbrushes from natural materials that can be grown in the garden. Attendees will be asked to bring their own jars for storing paint, but all other materials will be provided.

Unfortunately, the space for this class is highly limited (only 10 spots available), so we ask that you please only RSVP if you will be attending! Once the class is full those who register will be put on a waitlist.

The class and meet-up will take place at Bell Community Garden (3871 Bell Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108) and will be 5:00-7:00 p.m. If there is inclement weather we will move just up the street to the Seed St. Louis Carriage House. Registration will close shortly after the class is full. Once registration ends, you will be emailed to confirm if you have reserved a spot in the class or if you are on the waitlist.

Learn about what crops are best to grow in the fall and what you need to do to have a vibrant and abundant fall harvest! A recording of this virtual program will be posted to St. Louis County Library YouTube channel within three business days.

Explore the many different ways to water your garden manually and through various types of irrigation both store bought and homemade. Learn the basics of how to collect rainwater to use for watering purposes.