Speed Seeds Dating
Speed Seeds Dating is a speed dating event on a community garden / growing space. People meet on a speed dating rotation whilst completing gardening tasks, looking for companionship while learning about plants and growing techniques used in the garden spaces.
Open to everyone! This event is queer and het friendly. Open to any age, gender, sexual/romantic orientation, and no matter where you are in your gardening journey. There is an open call out for participants (romancers) to apply, with a behind the scenes match making process. Which helps us invite people that are more likely to romantically connect with each other.
There are ‘cherubs’ who act as stewards for these events. Their roles include offering refreshments, aiding the gardening tasks, checking people are comfortable and having a good time, as well as contributing to the general success and ease of the events.
Speed Seeds Dating works by matching with community gardens who would like to host these kind of high impact social events. We work alongside the community gardeners to curate gardening tasks for romancers which aid the gardens usual activity, while introducing the theories, principles and plants used in the gardens. Speed Seeds Dating is a good way to promote and celebrate community gardens, hopefully introducing more people into these spaces.
Two events have been hosted so far, one in Auchencairn link park spring 2024, and one in Dumfries The teaching garden Crichton campus Spring 2025.
I am currently looking for funding to enhance and deliver more of these events.
There is currently no Speed Seeds Dating events. You can still submit your interest, and we will get back to you to see if you are still interested once we’ve secured funding for the next event. By submitting your interest you are helping me show funders that this event is in demand!
If you are a community garden, or run a growing space and would like to learn more about hosting a Speed Seeds Dating event at your location. Please get in touch! I would love to learn how we could bring this very special, fun event to you! This event is a great way to promote your growing space, celebrate the great work you do, meet new people and hopefully new volunteers, all the while getting some good gardening done!
This event relies on funding to get it going. While there is the option to make it a ticketed event (or a tiered ticketed event) it still needs input funding to organise properly. I am also a believer that love and gardening knows nothing about bank accounts and that everyone should have the chance to attend this event. Please follow the link to my Ko-Fi account.