For what it’s worth, I did check before sending the box. I regret I have been the center of a vortex where two different seed boxcars left the train 
Normally my seed swaps are much less eventful.
I would be glad to send some seeds to join the new box if that’s still being considered, but I don’t I think I’m ready to sign up to receive it again yet.
Hi, Mark! (Laugh.) That is an excellent way of phrasing it. Definitely nothing was your fault; in fact, you were a welcome island of reliability in the midst of a sea. 
I will gratefully accept any seeds you have to offer to start the new seed train! I’ll PM you my address. 
A little off topic, but I promised pictures/follow-up of the honey locust… Maybe others would be interested to see them too. If not, I can break it off into a new thread.
“Thornless” (Thornish):
Regular Thorny (I didn’t gather pods from this anti-social friend):
Bucket I collected this morning:
Seed size compared to US penny:
A couple pods still had some green, so of course I tasted it. It’s like a sweet pea and a watermelon rind crossed… more sweet pea-like.
Didn’t finish processing the whole bucket, but got a handful of seeds. I could share at least 150 of these between Serendipity and the new Tree/Shrub mix.
Emily,
Thanks, I’ll be patiently waiting for that message
Maarten
Nifty! I’m happy to hear that you were still able to taste the pulp this late in the year.
That “thornless” (sort of) tree doesn’t look so bad. Those remaining thorns could probably be removed every year by pruning.
Ha ha ha, I’m glad you didn’t gather seeds from that super thorny one! Wow, yeah, those thorns are terrifying.
I thought I mentioned, that I have only tasted them in very late fall and into winter when they are totally brown and very dehydrated. At that point they hold a goo that is very thick and sticky, and sweet.
I remain skeptical of the edibility of the pods, or the goo either one, for that matter.
Oh! Well, if you mentioned it before, clearly I’m unobservant.
Very late fall and into winter is an appealing time to be harvesting crops. Anything that can wait until after the busy right-before-the-first-frost period is more relaxing.
Does it help to know that honey locust is closely related to carob, which is harvested and eaten in much the same way?
It can wait until after many fall frosts, a few hard freezes are fine too. Persimmons are like that too; naturally freeze-dried wild persimmons are candy. Not all trees hold them on the branches well into winter and only those that do, make the candy.
Not really, maybe if I saw how an author or Youtuber who ate a big plate full was feeling the next day, I’d have a better idea, but now I just don’t know if they are safe or not.
Thank you, Lauren! You’re magnificent! 
Hello all, I do not yet qualify for the seed swap and am only getting started gardening in the style of Fukuoka this coming spring (though I’ve already sown and grown some things this fall!); this said, I will be longingly perusing this post until I satisfy the requirements to join in the swapping myself.
Thanks to all for facilitating this, it’s a lovely happening 
Glad to have you here in our community! 
Yes! We’re delighted to meet you!
This whole community is so awesome. I’ve learned a lot here, and I’ve connected with a lot of people who have given me interesting ideas.
I hope you’ll find it just as wonderful! 
Okay! (Claps hands together.) After two solid days of working on it, I am almost done! Now I’m just waiting for Lauren’s seeds to arrive, so that I can include them.
Is anyone else planning to send seeds to go into the box before I send it to Maarten? Or am I just waiting for Lauren’s seeds?
I created a category (a larger bag for related types of seeds to go into) for every category I remember being useful before. I’ve created a few categories that weren’t there before that I think will be useful (“edible flowers” as a separate category from “herbs,” for example).
I’m sure I’ve forgotten to make some useful categories; you guys are welcome to add new categories anytime you want to.
Some of the categories are empty because I didn’t have anything to put into them. Most have something in them, though. I think I probably had about 40-50 different things to include, so that’ll make for some good variety, even at the very start.
(I have cultivated a habit of keeping a casual eye out for edible plants to save seeds from everywhere I go, including asking my neighbors if I can save seeds from their ornamental edibles, so that helps me wind up with a lot of different, interesting things. 
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I really like how the box is looking right now. It’s looking pretty awesome! 
I can’t get seeds together for another two weeks, so you aren’t waiting for me. I am excited to see what Hubs has dried and saved for us though. 
I have a small package I’m sending to Emily. I don’t have mail service where I live, I am going to try to get this sent out in today’s post if I can get to the post office in time.
Thank you, Mark! That’s very kind of you!
@Lauren I got your box yesterday evening! Thank you so much for generously sharing so much to go into the new starting box (and new backup box).
What can you tell me about the things that look like peach pits, the things that look like cherry pits, and the things that look like some kind of nut? They’re loose in the box, and I can put them into bags no problem; I just need to know what to put on the labels.
Hello and welcome to the forum. Once you have been here for a month, and post 10 times, you can participate in the serendipity seed swap. The seeds you swap can be nearly any type vegetable seeds or fruit trees, gardened or foraged. Just clearly mark them when adding to the box.
If you grow out seed, harvest the fruits and collect seeds, those can be sent in to the GTS program for distribution. So there is two ways to be involved with the seeds. What varieties are you growing?
What is the list of all the catagories? I can start going thru my hoard of seed and maybe help populate the empty categories once the box makes it to me.
