Seferihisar Municipality, which created and initiated the expansion of the Seed Swap Festivals all around Turkey, will organize an event on Saturday 31st March called "We Revive The Local Seeds”. Seferihisar Municipality will distribute 100.000 seeds and seedlings during the event, where the participants all over Turkey will exchange their local seeds.
Seferihisar Municipality runs several projects under the motto ‘Alternative Farming is Possible” to save the local seeds from extinction and saving the biodiversity of local seeds against the Turkish legislations and laws forbidding to produce the local seeds. The seed swap concept of the municipality expanded to Turkey. The seed swap festivals are being organized all around Turkey. Seferihisar Municipality has been the pioneer on this matter and multiplies the local seeds at its facility, Can Yücel Seed Center. The municipality distributes almost a million seeds and seedlings a year in Turkey.
ON MARCH 31ST IN ÜRKMEZ
The participants from all over Turkey are expected to join the event on Saturday March 31st at 13:00. Hundreds of thousand seeds will be brought to this event to be exchanged and handed down the next generations. The residents from Ürkmez will cook local dishes and the people from Seferihisar’s villages will present their cuisine on the trays placed at the festival area.