The Great Botanic Seed Swap and Share

Calling all budding green thumbs!  Gather the whole family for a fun, community celebration of seeds and home gardening at the beautiful Adelaide Botanic Garden. 

Come along to discover new seeds for your kitchen garden, connect with a community of like-minded garden lovers and have fun at this fete-like festival of seeds! 

Bring in your saved seeds to share and leave with something new to plant in your garden. 
Don't have any saved seeds? Don’t worry! For a small donation, you can purchase tokens to swap for seeds.
 

There are a lot of other activities to enjoy, too!

Activities!

• Seed swapping table
  Requires tokens or a kid's passport (if not bringing seeds to swap)

• Learn to fold origami seed packets, native seed giveaway, resources on wildlife friendly gardening, ID charts by Green Adelaide

• Plant a seed to take home and a touch table by the Botanic Gardens Education team

• Tomato Tombola – spin to win a tomato starter kit, or lots of other prizes!
  Requires tokens or a kids passport

• Make a badge to commemorate the day
  Requires tokens or a kids passport

• Guess the Seeds
  Requires tokens or a kids passport

• Bird snap table and nature crafts by the Diggers Club

• Live music

• Sausage Sizzle - Sausages $3.50 and drinks $2.50

• Drawing demonstration, and opportunity to have a go, by the Friends Botanical Art Group. 
  Small paintings for sale – 10% proceeds to Seed Conservation Centre

• Merchandise - Exclusive Botanic Gardens early access for purchase

Some activities require tokens or the kids 'patchport', these are available at the check-in desk.

Full Program

• 10.00am –12.00pm: ABC Radio Adelaide Live outside broadcast with Jason Chong, including Talkback Gardening with Sophie Thomson from 11am

• 10.00am-12.00pm: 'Live music by Ebony a million'

• 10.15am-11.00am: The Journey of a Seed: Stories from the Seed Conservation Centre (additional ticket required)
  Go behind-the-scenes in this fascinating talk. Hear first-hand stories from a scientist exploring remote and rugged locations to help prevent plant extinctions, and see rare endangered species up close.

• 11.30am – 2.00pm: Behind the Seeds: A snapshot of the Seed Conservation Centre (additional ticket required)
  Explore the laboratories and seed bank in a 30-minute sneak peek with the science team

• 11.30am –13.15pm: Tutti Arts “The Beekeepers” roving performances

• 12.00pm – 2.30pm: Pods Hold Stories: seed drawing workshop (additional ticket required)
  Get arty with local artist Stephanie Doddridge in these 1-hour workshops

• 12.15pm –14.15pm: Musical Plants performance with Flavio and Clarens 

Plus, we are excited to welcome ABC Radio Adelaide who are broadcasting live from this event. Come and see presenter Jason Chong in action from 10am -12pm, and Sophie Thomson for the talk-back gardening show from 11am.

Your ticket includes entry to the event; some activities have a small additional cost of $2.00. Profits from this day will be donated to the science and conservation work of the South Australian Seed Conservation Centre. 

Dates: Sunday 11 October 2026

Times: 10:00am - 12:00pm and 12:15pm - 2:15pm

Location: Rose Garden Pavilion, Adelaide Botanic Garden (C6 on the map)

Tickets: $15.00 per person

Children 12 and under are free, ticket required