Seed swap

In part this is due to increased interest in organic gardening and heritage or heirloom plant varietals.

[2] Seed swaps also help consumers who, due to increases in the cost of living or cut down on expenditures, wish to grow their own food.

[3][4] Some events are organized as part of an educational effort, where visitors are taught gardening and growing skills[5][6] and how to preserve an area's cultural heritage[7] and biodiversity.

[8] Participants share seeds of heirloom fruits and vegetables grown in their families or communities for generations; for some, the goal of such swaps is to preserve a "dying" heritage.

[18]: 103–104 [19]: 291–292 Some seed swaps explicitly have a biological goal—usually either educating the public in organic gardening or the attempt to maintain crop diversity.