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What has happened in 2022:

Connecting Gardens 2022

From March to April we have been running another seed spreading campaign . Again, we sent out over 70 packages from Portugal to Poland, from Italy to United Kingdom. Each package filled with Open Source Seeds, an informative leaflet and love.

chaos.social – our new Mastodon instance

After more than two years on our beloved solarpunk instance called Sunbeam City we moved to another instance called chaos.social. We are still in love with our “birthplace” Sunbeam City but we felt to join an instance that federates more widely. People interested in Open Source Gardens should be able to follow our main communication channel – which is our Fediverse account – no matter which instance they are on. So we found chaos.social.

Seed Saving Workshop Video now online

Saving seeds from the fruits of the current harvest for the plants in the next season is a thousands of years old key practice to grow plants and cultivate new breedings. Not to forget, it is actually the main technology that enabled humankind to finally stop nomadism and settle down.

Still, many of us do not know how to save seeds and so we decided to offer an interactive online workshop presented by Aimee Fenech last year. We recorded the session back then and now uploaded the video on Peertube.

What is planned for 2022:

Show your Garden

we are looking for your garden pictures! We like to create a collection of beautiful pictures from beautiful Open Source Gardens all over the world as a collage, including yours.

To participate, please send us your picture until 1. September 2022 to pictures@opensourcegardens.info including a description what we see, where the picture has been taken, author and license <3

Bits & Bäume

We are super excited to run our first public information booth at a conference called “Bits & Bäume” on October 1st & 2nd 2022. And we are not alone! Together with Open Source Seeds e.V. and Open Source Ecology Germany e.V. we create a common corner with “everything open source – from seeds to hardware”. And you can be part of it!

If you are from Berlin and/or you like to come to the conference and join us at the booth, please write to contact@opensourcegardens.info and we are happy to get to know each other.

thank you very much for reading up to here and happy gardening!

Erik for the Open Source Gardens

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What has happened in 2021:

• #ConnectingGardens After initial spark during rc3 we created the Connecting Gardens seed spreading campaign. Thanks to many friends, donations and our network we have been able to get a variety of seeds, create a nice leaflet and infrastructure and finally sent out over 80 packages from Portugal to Austria, from Italy to Norway. Using the hashtag #ConnectingGardens, for months long we have seen a lot of very nice pictures from various Open Source Gardens in different stages and setups. Find some inspirational pictures at the end of the mail [1].
• Seed saving workshop Seed saving is not just food saving ... it is in the very heart of the centuries-old tradition and art of plant cultivation. In autumn we created the first Open Source Gardens seed saving workshop. The workshop has been recorded but unfortunately is not yet online. This is likely to happen in the following weeks.
• Another rC3 We have been participating in rC3 again with our open source gardens world. According to rC3 stream statistics this has brought several hundreds of people on opensourcegardens.info and we hope we have inspired them with the idea that sharing knowledge and garden technologies is fundamental the sustainability of our societies.

What is planned for 2022:

• Another seed campaign Thanks to the success of last year's campaign and seeing that we alread have an infrastructure set up, we run another seed sharing campaign. You will be informed once we are ready to start, until then we are happy for any helping hand. Because although there is already a running infrastructure, there is still a lot to for updating the sources. If you have interest in sending seeds or helping with designs or ... simply reply to this message.
• Community channel: matrix room We now have a public Open Source Gardeners* community channel in the matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#open-source-gardens:matrix.org We chose Matrix because it is small, decentral and open source technology. The Matrix room is a place to grow together, exchange knowledge about anything open source and gardening and a way to connect with likeminded people. Also you are welcome to ask questions, share knowledge and ideas, post pictures from your plants, or ... If you are new to Matrix you can read about the concept on Matrix.org or directly create an account on https://app.element.io/
• We like to grow with you At Open Source Gardens, we like to collect, present and share knowledge surrounding open source gardening technologies from seeds to Soft-/hardware to philosophy. And we are looking for gardeners*, friends* and contributors*. We need people who create gardens, ask the right questions and find the right solutions. And we need friends who help us with gathering and presenting this information. Designers, developers, seed savers, writers, photographers, seed sendings, artists, hackers, community spaces ... help us helping each other in creating sustainable and sufficient gardens, open for people and open for technologies. If you are interested now, reply to this email or let us know in the matrix.

thank you very much for reading up to here and happy gardening!

Erik for the Open Source Gardens

[1] see the blog at: https://sunbeam.city/@opensourcegardens for example: https://sunbeam.city/@opensourcegardens/105955265387964713, https://mastodon.technology/@mischk/106040519840129787, https://sunbeam.city/@opensourcegardens/106430922746427677, https://kith.kitchen/@absinthe/106509597930589146, https://mastodon.social/@3rik/106736944067586382, ...