Although I’ve never been to a plant-related event like this (I’m so jealous that you have this opportunity!), I have promoted my knitting group at craft fairs. I’ve done it two ways — by setting up a table “pulling” people in with signs or by handing out fliers and then talking to them directly, and also by just “pushing” business cards into the hands of everyone I saw.

I honestly think the pushing method works best at these kind of events, because that way you don’t have to waste your time waiting for people to talk to you, and you don’t have to forgo participating yourself in order to promote the group. You litterally just hand the cards to everyone as you walk around — most people will reach out to accept them, and they one immediately ditch them the way they would ditch a flier (which is big and hard to hold while you are doing other things).

Oh, there’s local groups here that do seed/plant swaps, just nothing on the scale of seedy saturday, which sounds like so much fun!

The seeds are a genius idea. You could print out some of the “Hi, I’m a package of [Blank]” labels. I’d be happy to donate some seeds to you for the cause.

What a great idea everyone. Our Seedy Saturday isn’t till March, but I’m planning on going and will take some seed packages with folia swap labels.

Check with your local library too, ours has an annual seed/plant swap which would be another great place to promote the site.

One more thought … the swap labels could easily be turned into seed package templates. I often make my own seed packages by printing templates from the internet, and I would love to use a Folia package, both for my own stash and for swapping.

w00t, thanks for the update Nath!

Awesome! You guys are going to beat us to the punch by about a week LOL Be sure to post about this in the Gardening In Canada group too ;)