Dual Seed Exchange on 1/30 National Seed Swap Day

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Below are the details on our upcoming Washington Gardener Seed Exchanges.  
They take place on 1/30 National Seed Swap Day and thought some of you  
might want to use that fun date for story ideas, blog posts, etc.

Also, we are always looking for prize donors and goody bag items for the  
Seed Exchange, so if you have extra inventory, swag, books, etc. you'd like  
to donate. Just send me an off-list message.

Stay warm - it is brutal out there folks  - at least here in the  
Mid-Atlantic it is! 

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The Fifth Annual  Washington Gardener Seed Exchange, hosted by Washington  
Gardener Magazine, takes place on January 30, 2010 at the Brookside Gardens  
in Wheaton, MD AND at Green Spring Gardens in Fairfax,  VA. This year you 
have a choice on which side of the beltway you want to  attend!

Seed Exchange attendees trade seeds, exchange planting tips, hear expert  
speakers, and collect goody bags full of gardening treats.

The featured speakers at Brookside Gardens are Barbara Melera of D.  
Landreth Seeds and Michael Twitty of Afro-Foodways.

The featured speakers at Green Spring Gardens are Cindy Brown, Green  
Spring's head kitchen gardener, and Janet Draper of the Smithsonian's Ripley  
Garden.

Registrations are streaming in now and we  expect a sell-out of both 
locations. We urge you to pre-register to guarantee  yourself a spot.

The event also includes such “green” features as  the garden book and 
catalog swap. Participants are encouraged to bring their  gently used garden 
books and mailorder garden catalogs to trade with each other.  Any leftover 
publications at the end of the swap are donated to the National  Agriculture 
Library in Beltsville, MD.

The first annual Washington  Gardener Seed Exchange was held on January 26, 
2006. After that event’s  success, seed swaps in other cities across the 
nation have joined in celebrating  National Seed Swap Day each year on the 
last Saturday in  January.

Subscribers to Washington Gardener Magazine receive a  $5 discount off the 
admission to the Washington Gardener Seed Exchange. 
A PDF of the registration form and full event details is linked here: 
_http://issuu.com/washingtongardener/docs/wgseedexchange2010_ 
(http://issuu.com/washingtongardener/docs/wgseedexchange2010) .
Please print it and fill it out, then mail it along with payment by January 
 25. 

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Sincerely,
Kathy Jentz
Editor/Publisher
Washington  Gardener Magazine
826 Philadelphia Ave.
Silver Spring MD  20910
301-588-6894
WGardenermag@aol.com
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