Awesome! 
I’d love to join as well! This will be my first garden season saving seeds so I don’t yet have my own grexes to add, but I have bought so many heirloom varieties that I would love to share in exchange for getting my hands on other people’s landrace seeds!
Excellent! You are added!
should be arriving at my place this weekend! 
@Joseph_Lofthouse the rmsa wheat and barley, are they spring or fall planted?
My conditions are USDA zone 4/5 with snowcover for 5 months.
At my place, barley is not reliably winter hardy, therefore I have typically planted it in the spring.
I also typically plant the wheat as spring wheat, though much of it is winter hardy for me.
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Hope this works. Since some of the seed packets have names on them I didn’t make the video public.
I also just realized that I mentioned two types of wheat, when it’s actually one wheat and one barley.
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@Cynthia message me your address and I’ll try to get this mailed on Monday
This was so fun! I poured over the box for ever!
I can’t get a picture bc I don’t have a place to lay it all out. I only planned on a couple things but ended up with a pinch of raspberry… blackberry… onion… potato… hibiscus… And the pits were too tempting so I got a couple peach and apricot. Going to look up their starting needs… I may already have an apple seedling under a light 
They’ll need to be cold stratified. I use paper towel in a bag in the refrigerator. I also shell the nuts, but that can get tricky and you might crush the nuts. Doing it without shelling will probably take longer but in my experience the germination rate is about the same.
I direct plant walnuts, pecans, apples, peaches and so on in the fall or early winter in the spot I where they will grow, I just put them shallow in the ground, a couple inches for say a walnut or peach, maybe 1/2 for an apple or pear. I don’t even clear or work up the spot. Just pull enough weeds or grass to stick the seed in, very small seeds like blackberry are just barely covered. Then I cover it up with boards or a big rock or some old carpet, or whatever. In early spring I remove the covering, weeds and grass are gone in the covered area by then and the seed sprots whenever it feels like it. Works pretty well and no hassles of sprouting and caring for a seedling. Also, no root disturbance or transplant shock, and less need to keep the young plant watered.
I enjoyed your video!
(Laugh.) I’ve considered planting sensitive plants because they’re so much fun to play with! I enjoyed playing with them when I was eleven or twelve. I bet my kids would enjoy playing with them, too. I didn’t know they were invasive, which is a shame. And they’re not edible. So maybe they’re not as ideal as a garden plant as one might think. They’d make a great houseplant for kids, though!
That peppermint stick balsam looks very interesting. I looked up the flowers, which are beautiful, but what’s even more important is that they’re edible, and are supposed to taste good. I’m fond of ornamental edibles. Have you ever tried eating them? If so, what did you think of the taste?
Hi, Kadence! Now that you’ve gotten the box, I’ve added you to the bottom of the list, as requested! 
Then I added myself after you because there are some things in the box now that look so cool that I want some . . . (Grin.) Anyone new who wants to be added can go in front of me.
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I haven’t heard anything about needing my address for the seed swap, so please let me know with a DM whenever it gets to me. I’m super busy this time of year and don’t have time to check in here much. Thanks!
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HasBean will need your address. That’ll be five people down the list, so it’s not urgent yet. You can message your address to them, or they can message you to ask you for it when they need it, either way.
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I didn’t try eating them. As with everything else I plant my first goal was to get more seeds. They were just too fussy for my taste so I never planted them again.
Ahhh. Fussiness is a definite downside. I wonder if that was genetics or climate suitability (or both?).
Well, the fact that it needed water was a downside. 
My pattern is benign neglect. If a plant needs my attention in order to survive it will probably die.
Oh, your comment about my lilac is interesting. I don’t at all know what I’m doing there, but I planted a tray of them last year and have about a dozen plants that I thought (assumed?) were lilacs but they were growing just incredibly slowly – ~2" in the first year. I guess if I’d thought about the fact that I don’t really know if I’m doing it right, I might not have passed them on. Hopefully people will see your warning before taking them.
I think I see it. The lilac seeds I have seen in the past are shown here as a seed pod. What you put in the bag looks like the seed inside the pod.
I never bothered to cut it open, just planted the whole thing.
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I don’t want to be a bother but if you can take my name off. I have tons of seeds and I’m going to end up with even more if it comes to me again! Lol I’m putting myself in time out, no more seeds until the fall when I can sort through my saved seeds for this year and can have more to add.
Also, still waiting for address for Cynthia