Lightning Talks

For the first time we run a dedicated “sprouting knowledge” session also known as “lightning talks”. We have just started our call for participation and we are looking for inspiring ideas and talks about everything related to open source and gardening: From software to hardware, from constructing your diy raised bed to maintaining a farmbot, from running a community garden to running open olitor, from plant-identification to garden management ... share your best practices with us!

To take part please send a mail to contact@opensourcegardens.info with a short description of your talk. We will let you know your acceptance by the end of the week.

The sprouting knowledge session will happen on Thursday, 17. August, at 18:00 hours in the workshop tent in the Bits&Bäume Habitat.

Schedule of events

Please find all up to date information on our dedicated village page, here is an overview of our events and activities as is on 8. August:

• “Gemeinsam Gemüse Gärtnern”, a talk by Bettina on Tuesday, 15. August at 15:00
• “Eine bessere Welt ist pflanzbar”, a workshop with Coco and Dreirik on Wednesday, 16. August at 14:00
• “Open Source Gardeners* Unite”, a gathering for everyone interested on Thursday, 17. August at 14:00
• “Sprouting Knowledge”, a lightning talk session on Thursday, 17. August at 18:00 (link to follow)
• “Growing the Open Source Gardens”, a gathering for activists on Friday, 18. August at 14:00

Activities

• We bring an Open Source Seeds Collection for you to pick up and join our movement
• We offer a Seed Exchange Point to share your own seeds

#cccamp #cccamp23 #seed #exchange #open #source #gardens

These are the hand-written news of Open Source Gardens, in initiative to cultivate DIY gardening, Open Source Seeds and Open Source technologies.

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https://opensourcegardens.info/order-seeds.en.html#springflowers

For this activity we send out the same starter kits from last year including seeds from Open Source Tomatoes Vivaroma, Vivagrande and Sunviva, Open Source Corn Lisanco and Open Source Chili Black Heart. We send out these seeds together with a call to share pictures and stories online, in social media or other relevant channels. For example in our new Matrix room

Please help us to spread the good news

If you have friends who missed the activity last year or if you know people around Europe that could be interested in these starter kits or you know a community garden that should participate or ... let them know! Talk to them, forward this mail and help us share the news via social media by boosting our posts on Mastodon and/or Twitter:

“Spring is around the corner and we send out another round of starter kits with tasty varieties of #OpenSourceSeeds to help you create a beautiful #OpenSourceGarden.”

https://sunbeam.city/@opensourcegardens/107790152321200005

By the way: If you did not save yourself seeds from last year and you are looking for new ones, you can of course also re-order a starter kit for yourself if you want. Just be aware that we only have a limited number of start-kits available so please only re-order if you are out of stock.

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

Aimee, Lasse, Sun and 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, ...