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Originally Posted by Nan_PA_6b
Half a million seeds! Are you supplying retail?
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Unbeknownst to me, yes.
The half mil is a rare year, it maybe happens one in 5 or more years.
With that many seeds, it's impossible to trade them all. One year I had a request for bulk packs of as many varieties as possible, no request for specific varieties though. Several years later, when I asked a T'ville member in Europe how they received one of my named varieties, they said eBay.
A typical year is more like 100,000 seeds. I print and cut labels (unlike my handwritten pink labels in the MMMM), supply bulk packs of seeds, and several thousand zip baggies to the Master Gardeners in my area. They bag seeds w/labels during the 17 day State fair. They have to occupy the booths in teams for 12 hours a day, 4 hours or more in shifts. When they aren't answering gardening questions, packing seeds staves off boredom. The fair had approximately 1.7 million visitors this year, so it's the easiest way to give away my surplus.