Help Grow Your Soup
UPDATE: The free seeds part of the Help Grow Your Soup promotion are not genetically modified seeds whatsoever. Thank you for asking!
This Earth Day, I’m partnering with Campbell’s Soup Company to grow 1 BILLION (yes, BILLION) tomatoes across America to help America get their gardening going (er, growing!). For the first time in Campbell’s 100+ year history, they are giving away the actual tomato seeds used to make their iconic tomato soup, for free! All you have to do is redeem the code from the bottom of any condensed can of Campbell’s soup at HelpGrowYourSoup.com and a packet of seeds will be sent to you right away. While you’re at the website, you can help donate seeds, too. Just click on the GROW button and 50 seeds will be donated to the Future Farmers of America. All you have to do is click everyday!
On Thursday, April 16th, I’ll be in the Bronx neighborhood of New York City helping to kick-off a new community garden. I’m joining Urban Farming, The National Future Farmers of America and Campbell’s to unveil the new community garden that features an amazing vertical garden that grows vegetables upwards, saving space and adding visual interest to a community garden. Check out this pic!
I’ll be doing live media interviews that day, so tune in your local news stations that day to learn some easy tips on how you, too, can start a vegetable garden at home. It’s really a huge shift this Spring (just look at the White House vegetable garden that just broke ground) and I hope you’ll join me in gardening at home.
And here’s a short video explaining the Help Grow Your Soup billion seed challenge. Enjoy!
While I think getting more people to garden and grow their own food is quite commendable, I don’t see any mention of where all these seeds are coming from (or maybe I missed it?) Are they organic? Are they GMO?
While it’s a nice initiative, starting with organic seeds that haven’t been genetically modified would be an even better approach that would send an even more “green” message and be more responsible. Just something to think about.
I love gardening! I taught my kids how to and now I am teaching my nephews – we have a wonderful garden every year. I think that gardening and other sustainable living should be taught in school from elementary on up. I wish high schools across the country would start a program sort of like Home Ec but make it nothing but Eco and Sustainable Living! If we don’t teach our children how are they going to participate in efforts to save the planet and change the way we live!
We already sent off for our seeds from Cambells – waiting to see if they are organic seeds and not genetically modified – that’s all we use in our garden! Happy Gardening!
We are very fortunate to have a small greenhouse in our area that specializes in organic heirloom varieties. There is nothing like a REALLY good vine ripened tomato right out of the garden!
Sent an email to several friends regarding the Campbell’s seed campaign.
Thank you for the “heads up”!
I work with Campbell (doing PR for the program) and can answer the seed question – the seeds are not GMO. Happy planting!
I’ve heard about this and it’s a neat thing.
We don’t use Campbell’s Soups, but I know of people who do and hope they’ll take advantage of the offer.