{"id":101773,"date":"2026-01-31T19:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101773\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:52:20","slug":"community-seed-swap-held-at-berks-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101773\/","title":{"rendered":"Community seed swap held at Berks Nature."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the sub-zero temperatures and crust of icy snow blanketing the ground, spring was in the air Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>At least it was inside the Berks Nature building in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>The organization and the Penn State Master Gardeners of Berks County teamed up to host the second annual Community Seed Swap.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Gardeners listen to seed presentations during the second annual Seed Swap sponsored by the Berks County Master Gardeners at Berks Nature on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/REG-L-SeedSwap1885.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"3550474\" \/>Gardeners listen to seed presentations during the second annual Seed Swap sponsored by the Berks County Master Gardeners at Berks Nature on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026.   (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>Gardening enthusiasts got an opportunity to pick up a vast variety of seeds \u2014 ranging from flowers to vegetables to fruit to shrubs to trees \u2014 and share some of their own with like-minded green thumbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody loves free seeds, there\u2019s nothing wrong with that,\u201d event co-chair Karyn Spengler said. \u201cThere\u2019s a huge variety, if you\u2019re looking for something special you\u2019re probably going to find it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-chair Sandy Weiss said the idea behind it came when he began noticing the growing price for seeds and difficulty finding native species.<\/p>\n<p>Having lots of friends who each grew their own array of plants, she figured teaming up and trading would be a great idea.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Seeds are displayed during the second annual Seed Swap sponsored by the Berks County Master Gardeners at Berks Nature on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/REG-L-SeedSwap1887.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"3550475\" \/>Seeds are displayed during the second annual Seed Swap sponsored by the Berks County Master Gardeners at Berks Nature on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026.   (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt blossomed into a monster a little bit,\u201d she said, looking over a room packed with about 100 people. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that I can see it\u2019s growing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Along with the thousands of seeds that were up for grabs, the event featured educational presentations on \u201cWinter Sowing\u201d and \u201cCommon Seed Starting Mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the sub-zero temperatures and crust of icy snow blanketing the ground, spring was in the air Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-101773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}