[Corinne] Here in Florida, we can grow plants year round so it's not even just the spring and summer we can
feed ourselves. There's something you can grow in your yard to eat to add to your diet year round.
Food is expensive. Humans are the only creatures that go out and buy their food and
Miami Seed Share wants to give them the seeds, the plants and the knowledge to do it for themselves.
I'm Corinne Mariposa. I am the director and founder of Miami Seed Share. We distribute seeds freely to
the community. We've distributed over 20,000 packs of seeds in the last three years. It's our mission
to let people grow plants for free to share them year round and take the guesswork out of what
should I be sowing at what times of year. We share these seeds freely because they are life. Life
shouldn't be sold. It is a part of your ecosystem that you should share. Miami Seed Share is here to
make sure you can get those seeds to make it more available. You don't have to know someone who's
growing it. You don't have to know when the seed is viable and ready to collect. We go ahead and take
care of that and then we offer you workshops. We do propagation workshops with seeds and stem cuttings.
We also do air layering workshops. We do medicinal plant walks and tincture making classes. We do
butterfly garden workshops. We like to do nature games so I'll write rhyming clues and you'll go to
a botanical garden and follow them around.
Welcome to Garden Day 2022, everybody! We've got...
Garden day, you know, it's the start of the heirloom garden season.
We distribute garden heirloom edible plants that way we can cultivate Miami's own garden plants here in Miami
over generations. Today, we were sharing arugula, mizuna, Florida speckled butter beans, a variety of eggplant.
For the bees and the butterflies, we've got a huge variety of flowers, from native tick seed. We've got gaillardia.
So Miami Seed Share is for people, plants and pollinators.
We are up for collaborations with public libraries for any events they want to do or garden buildings.
Public schools, other non-profit organizations.
We've got seed spots all around town and always looking to open new ones. Currently we have a seed
spot at Brockway Memorial Library in Miami Shores, at Miami Beach Botanical Garden on South Beach.
We also work with the schools so every year 20 to 30 teachers, I give them plants and
seeds for their school. I'll go to schools to help them scout their garden location.
Well, I've loved seeds my whole life. I've always collected and shared them. Growing up in the South
for a trans girl, it wasn't super easy. When I got here, I was able to share my knowledge on a level
that wasn't really possible in Virginia or North Carolina. It's really important to me to be zero
waste and zero carbon and that Miami Seed Share and the good work that we do isn't doing harm in
another way. It is a big job to supply seeds to all of Miami. I'll bike 8,000 miles a year for
Miami Seed Share, collecting seeds, doing workshops all over town. It is a little bit extreme perhaps.
I personally don't have a zero-carbon footprint but Miami Seed Share does. I really want people to
to come and learn and to come and get their seeds so please just contact us when you're
ready to grow. Come to a plant propagation workshop, sow some seeds with us, let us learn
about what your growing conditions are and we can recommend plants for you to grow.