The Seed Expo was such an amazing day.
On Martin Luther King Day, our day of service at the Northbrook Library was a busy one. We packed about 1800 envelopes of seeds from our gardens (with the much-needed help from the wonderful young people from Rochelle Zell High School). I gave some seeds to the kindergarteners when I spoke to them about butterflies; I pulled some seeds out to distribute at the Riverwoods Earth Day event. Other than that, I came home with 8 packets of seeds.
Thank you to Gloria, Sarah, Jennifer, Mardi, Sharon, and Terri for their tabling help and all the information they gave to people. A special thank you to Rachel who had signed up for the morning shift and stayed the entire day. A special thank you to Nancy who got their bright and early and had half the seed boxes filled by the time I got there. A special thank you to Robin who must have gone home with a backache from all the bending to get seeds to keep refilling.
Take note of those wonderful boxes. Thank you, Ellen, for the placards filled with information about the plants; many photos were taken of them by people taking the seeds. A big thank you to Ellen’s husband, Jamie, who designed the stands for the placards and made wooden blocks to weight the boxes and hold the seeds in place.
The success of this event was a wide-ranging joint effort! You are what makes this group amazing! THANK YOU!
