Seed Balls

Over the past few weeks, we have been working with a team to create wildflower seed balls. These seed balls will be used in various places around the Orchard and Ashram to beautify the area and encourage biodiversity, especially for bees and other pollinators.

What is a seed ball? It is ball-shaped, about the size of a large marble, and smaller than a golf ball. The seeds are rolled within a ball of clay and earth, humus, or compost, to assist with germination.

You may even hear seed balls associated with the terms seed bombing or guerilla gardening. Seed bombing is a farming technique that introduces vegetation to land by throwing or dropping seed balls.

The team made several hundred seed balls and had a lot of fun doing it.