Deal Seedy Saturday 22nd February - Landmark Garden

Deal Seedy Saturday - Applefest! 3rd Nov from 11am

We have a lot of Ida Apples (old english variety) from the Glean last monday at Farm near Eastry as part of Feedback food charity National gleans ... You are very welcome to come down to make or try some real apple juice

Plus we are giving away a number of small trees as a small practical step to address the IPCC report on Climate Change.  We have about 20 small trees: hawthorn, cobnut, ash, dogwood to give away all suitable for small gardens

We will have our usual Seed and Plant swap; So please bring something  to swap :)

We will also have the Landmark Uke Club playing for us

Please bring a cup or container for sampling the apple juice :)

Deal Seedy Saturday 3rd Nov 10:30 to 12:30

Our next Seedy Saturday at the Landmark Garden on Sat 3rd Nov will have a Autumnal feel to it.

As well as our usual plant and seed swap we with have our apple in working order (so please bring down some windfall apples and a container if you want to have a go) and Sue is arranging for some small trees (like hawthorne) to give away … fantastic idea as a response to the recent IPCC report on Climate Change.

We will also have the Landmark Uke Club there to supply some music

all welcome and event is free

Deal Seedy Saturday 5th May 11am to 1pm

Saturday 5th May 11am to 1pm – Deal Seedy Saturday – Seed and plant swap at the Landmark Community Garden, Deal High St

Please bring seeds and plants to swap or donate – great way of growing something new and different or just get going in growing food.

As well as seed swap Sandown Castle Community Garden will be there will their home-made bird nesting boxes, Deal in Bloom will be on hand to highlight this year’s RHS SE in Bloom + Britain in Bloom which Deal town is part of, The Deal Hop Farm will also have a stall and a twiddling demonstration for members of the farm. Music will be supplied by the Landmark Ukulele Club

Organised by Deal With It – Deal’s local community green group

Seedy Saturday 17th Feb

Thank you to everyone who came, donated or swapped seeds and plants at our first Seedy Saturday of 2018.

We had stalls from Walmer WI promoting their Green Heart appeal, Sandown Castle Community Garden with some wonderful home made bird boxes (and great value!) produced by John Ford and our colleagues from Deal Hop Farm who were doing a roaring trade with their rhizomes.

Many, Many thanks to the Landmark Ukulele Club who provided the entertainment and to Vicky & Sonja for the Cake making.

The Swap table worked very well with some lovely donations from individuals and the Golf Rd Allotment holders.

Walmer WI

Thank you all

Deal Seedy Saturday - 17th Feb 11am to 1pm

Our first Seedy Saturday - Seed and Plant swap will be on Saturday 17th Feb at the Landmark Garden 11am to 1pm.

The idea is for people to bring/donate seeds from last season and swap for different ones to try this year. We want to get people growing stuff :)

We will also have stalls from Walmer WI, Deal SE in Bloom, Deal Hop Farm, Bay Trust and music provided by the Landmark Uke Club

All Welcome

Bee Fest in Deal

We had a very successful Seedy Saturday today at our Bee Fest in the Landmark Garden. We think we had about 250 visitors today.

Thank you to Dover Keepers, Landmark Uke Club for playing us, everyone who donated plants and food and all our Deal With It Volunteers

All our photos can be found at here

Deal Seedy Saturday 18th March

Thank you to everyone who came to our Deal Seedy Saturday Seed & Plant Swap yesterday - Especially grateful to all those who donated plants and seeds. 

Many seeds taken with some going to some first time growers - please tell us how you get on :)

The stalls from Deal Town team for SE in Bloom and Deal Hop Farm had a busy day

Thanks to our DWI volunteers and big thanks to our wonderful entertainment from the Landmark Uke Club (which meets on Friday's at the Landmark Centre 10-12 cost £1)

Our next Seedy will be in May/June date TBC

Our Photos are here

Deal Seedy Saturday 18th March 10:30am

Our next Seedy Saturday will be on Saturday 18th March at 10:30-12:30pm at the Landmark Garden, High St Deal.

Please bring seeds to swap or donate (ideally seeds should be about a year old with a description of what they are :)

We will also have the Deal Town SE in Bloom on hand to tell us about this year's competition and how the community can get involved.

The Deal Hop Farm will be there with their last remaining hops looking for a loving Deal home

Gus will be there offering a garden tool sharpening service for a small donation.

Entertainment will be provided by the Landmark Ukulele Club

Deal Seedy Saturday 14th May

Thank you to everyone who volunteered, donated/swap plants, played Ukes or made cakes for today's Seedy Saturday at the Landmark Community Group here in Deal. 

Very cold northerly wind meant we did not have the quantity of people today that we usually have but this did mean we had time to talk about what Deal With It is doing in Deal for longer which was really good.

We had £36 in donations - all money goes to Garden projects at Landmark or Deal Station

Especial thank you to the Uke Club based at the Landmark for playing us - Those Uke hands needed regular warm up breaks in the Cafe :)

All our pics are here

Our next event will be a Beach Clean on Sunday 26th June - We will be organising a Summer shindig in August.

Seedy Saturday - 14th May

The next Deal Seedy Saturday will be on Saturday 14th May starting at 11am at the Landmark Garden on Deal High Street.

This is a plant and seed swap so please bring some labelled plants or seeds to swap.

We hope to have some music provided by the Landmark Ukulele group and some cakes to share

All Welcome

Deal Seedy Saturday 12th March

Lovely day for our first Seedy Saturday of 2016 - lots of donations of seed and few plants. Many thanks to the Landmark Ukulele Club (who meet every Friday morning at the Landmark from 10am) who entertained us and much of Deal walking up and down the High st!

Thanks to all our volunteers today - Sonja, Pat, Vicky, Charles, Sarah, Imogen and Steve and also to Sue & Ruth at AnSugan for the cakes!

The Landmark Garden is part of the town's plans for SE in Bloom and Britain in Bloom plus we are a official NGS site in July .

The next Deal Seedy Saturday will be in May - this one will be a plant & seed swap.

All our pics are here

Deal Seedy Saturday 12th March

Deal’s next Seedy Saturday Seed Swap will be on Saturday 12^th March in the Landmark Garden on Deal High st.

The Swap will start at 11am and finish around 1pm.  

The Seedy Saturday is one of four that Deal With IT (Deal’s local community Green group) runs over the year.

It is a great opportunity for people to get growing some of their own food and share knowledge & experience.

Please bring Seeds to swap – they should be fairly recent (last growing season), labelled and tell us a story how you got on with them.

There will also be stalls from AnSugan (recycled and re imagined clothes) as well as local raw chocolatier Chocolution

We also hope to have an mass  Ukulele  busk via the Ukulele Club members based at the Landmark centre to entertain us.

So why bring a Ukulele (as well as some seeds) to join in !

More info from info@dealwithit.org.uk 

DealWali - Deal's Festival of Light in the Landmark Garden Saturday 19th Dec

We are organising a special 'Seedy Saturday' event to round off the end of another year in the Landmark Garden and to celebrate the winter solstice.

With DealWali our own festival of light we want to cover the garden in candle light and bring the community together for some music & song, storytelling, seasonal fayre and just being together.

Last year's event - A thousand lights to chase the darkness - was very successful (last year's report here) and great fun.

The event is free - we will collect for donations but much rather people contribute by bringing jars and tea lights, food to share and a warm spirit


There will be seasonal fayre to eat and drink, lots of music from Deal Hoodeners, Sue Watson, JonnieLane & the Sunshine Ukes; storytelling with Roisin Murray;

We will have also local forager Lucia Stuart of the 'Wild Kitchen' with edible delights from our shoreline (and hopefully some oysters!);

Chocolution local raw chocolate specialists with their foraged chocs (

Kentish Cobnut and Milk Chocolate

Sea Buckthorne Toffee and Dark Chocolate

Rosehip Jelly and Dark Chocoalte

Hawthorne Jelly and Dark Chocolate

Meddler Jelly  and Dark Chocolate)

to sample and buy


Pete the Rock from SeaCafe with his famous stone readings will be on hand to get some conversations going

Saturday 19th December starts at 4pm and finishes about 6:00pm.