I did a seed exchange many years ago with a group of 20 people. Everyone listed what seeds they had to share and how many seed packets. People would respond to what they wanted and what they had to share. Each person was responsible for editing their post to add the names of people who wanted their seeds. Example of seed packet distribution:
Pat has 4 packets of Bush Bean seeds and 5 packets of corn, so her post would look like this. She would do a different post for those seeds she wanted:
4 Bush Bean seed packets
1) TJ
2) Pam
3) Sue
4) Rachel
5 Corn seed packets:
1) Pam
2) Marty
3) Rachel
4) Ryan
5) Donna
Pat wants the following seeds:
1) Mixed flower seed packet from Kimberly
2) Cucumber seed packet from Ginny
3) Zinnia seed packet from Carol
4) Watermelon seed packet from Mike
and so on ....
I copied and pasted the list from each post to a master list. The seeds were all mailed to me including a bubble envie inside with their address already written on the front. I dumped all the seeds in a pile then made individual place cards for each person participating. I then sorted the seeds out via each person's request from the master list.
I then packed each person's bubble envelope with the seeds they requested and mailed them out. Everyone had sent a few dollars for postage of their envie.
Everyone was shocked at all the seeds they got from this seed swap. Just about everyone received a envie full of seed packets.
I think I did it 2 years in a row and it was a big hit! I will say though that it is more time-consuming than you can imagine to sort all the seeds out. I am sure there were several hundred seed packets in the pile before being sorted to each person.
It is a great way to get lots of seeds for postage.
