Seeds go hand to hand, for free. Home-saved, small amounts, labelled with what they are.
In Sweden, private growers swapping seed like this need no registration and no plant passport. Selling or sending by post is a different matter.
Fröbytardag
A day for swapping seeds. Bring seeds you've saved, take seeds you want to grow. You don't need to bring any: you can swap or buy on the day.
Talks, music, café and things for children, around a long table of seed packets. It has been running for about sixteen years.
Fröbytardag 2026
How it works
Where it's been
- Kulturhuset, Ytterjärna6 April 2013
- Gröna Oasen, Järna21 March 2015
- Magasinet, by Nibble handelsträdgård, Ytterjärna
- Fritids Fjärilen, Mariaskolan
- Vår Lokal, GnestaAlso a Plantbytardag in May, swapping seedlings
Talks over the years
- Paul TeepenEcological garden techniques, seed growing and seed saving today; cultivated plants
- Robin TidblomGetting land to farm in Järna, and community supported agriculture
- Maria SvennbeckGarden design and permaculture
- Dante HellströmGrowing perennial vegetables
- Brigid LefevreFood craft
- Under TallarnaGarden co-operative
Biochar course
One Fröbytardag came with a biokolskurs: how wood turns to charcoal, and why it belongs in soil.
Pyrolysis and gasification, soil life, compost tea, and the kilns: oil drums, top-lit updraft stoves, cone kilns and pits dug in the ground.
Photos
Posters
