{"id":22864,"date":"2025-04-04T16:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/annual-merriweather-home-market-seed-swap-aims-to-grow-a-community\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:18:57","slug":"annual-merriweather-home-market-seed-swap-aims-to-grow-a-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/annual-merriweather-home-market-seed-swap-aims-to-grow-a-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Merriweather Home + Market seed swap aims to grow a community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3a286c80-e136-583f-bfea-7af36c78c4fe&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2667\" alt=\"The third annual Merriweather Home + Market seed swap will take place on Friday, April 11. All are welcome to attend, even without seeds to swap. (Erin Hansen\/Courtesy photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The third annual Merriweather Home + Market seed swap will take place on Friday, April 11. All are welcome to attend, even without seeds to swap. (Erin Hansen\/Courtesy photo)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Gardening season is just around the corner, and to help residents prepare, Merriweather Home + Market will host its annual seed swap.<\/p>\n<p>The swap is Friday, April 11, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Merriweather Home + Market, 25 S. Elm St. It will be held in collaboration with Thistle &amp; Co Flower Farm, Vibrant Earth Seeds, and the Mesa Verde Garden Club, which are \u201cdedicated to enriching the local gardening community through education and experience in all aspects of horticulture and gardening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attendees are asked to label their seeds with the type and care instructions. Everyone is welcome, even those without seeds. Helpers will be assist with seed selection.<\/p>\n<p>Vegetable and flower plant starters also will be for sale. The seed swap is free, and refreshments and gifts will be provided with a purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d love for people to come with their own seeds, labeled, to swap, but if they don\u2019t have any to share, that\u2019s OK too,\u201d said Erin Hansen, owner of Merriweather Home + Market. \u201cThey can still come and participate, and leave with an excellent supply of seeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hansen said she hopes to see more heirloom seeds this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always get such a great variety of seeds, but I\u2019d really love to see more heirloom seeds,\u201d Hansen said. \u201cWe have a lot of families that have farmed and gardened for generations, and to share those seeds would be amazing to have in the garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attendance has doubled each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur goal is to bring people together, share the love of gardening and inspire others to try gardening,\u201d Hansen said. \u201cThere\u2019s a great saying that goes something like this: Teach a woman to fish, she\u2019ll eat for a day. Teach her to garden and the whole neighborhood gets a zucchini. Wouldn\u2019t that be something?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is open to all, whether experienced or newbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,2222,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-garden","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77883,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions\/77883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22864"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}