Free Seed Exchange Box
Helping the Maui Community Grow
Completely Free
Take What You Need
Leave What You Don't
Please Keep Tidy ~ Thank You ~ Mahalo
Find more info about seed sharing at WWW.NOMOOLA.COM whose project helped inspire Seed Share Maui. It is not owned, managed, monitored, or surveilled. There is no paid staff. Nothing is for sale. It only keeps going if the people who use it keep it g
oing. No one’s labor is exploited and no tax-deductions are offered. In all of the word’s various definitions, it is FREE! WHY SHARE SEEDS? The ancient practices of seed saving and sharing are currently under threat. Plants carefully cultivated by farmers the world over for millennia – skills and knowledge that belong to no one and everyone – are being claimed as “inventions” and patented by corporations with the support of national states and international bodies, such as the World Trade Organization. Most of these patented seeds are genetically modified. To support corporations, states have made it illegal for everyone else to save and share patented seeds. Saving and sharing seeds is crucial to our freedom, autonomy from capitalism, and crucial for our survival. Within each seed lays a storehouse of knowledge, recalling the kind of soil in which it was grown, the amount of sun, rain and nutrients that it requires, when to sprout and when to bear fruit. CALL TO ACTION
SHARE SEEDS stations can encourage the saving and sharing of non-genetically modified seeds. Seeds that are free for everyone to grow and harvest. Seeds that will produce more seeds, to grow again year after year after year. In these seeds is the hope for life. We build SHARE SEEDS stations entirely with scrap and repurposed material. They are extremely low maintenance and self-explanatory. We are encouraging prospective organizations and entities to implement SHARE SEEDS stations, particularly locations with lots of traffic and used by people of diverse populations – e.g. community centers, libraries, churches, coffee shops, senior service centers, etc.
