Spreading our seed

Mass balloon launch from this year's festival

This year 1500 balloons were released by the main stage at Shambala Festival on Saturday the 27th of August at 6pm with the help of our friends Bearded Kitten. Everyone had a personal message written by a someone at the festival with the aim of spreading good vibes across the world. The person who finds a balloon furthest away from the festival site and responds to the email on the label will win free tickets to next years event.

Over the last few weeks we have been receiving emails from the people that found these balloons in their gardens, villages, towns and cities. With the Easterly wind at the release most of the balloons were found in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk but some of them crossed the Channel all the way to Europe the furthest afield was in Germany!

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The Stories

Ken Richard found his balloon and message stuck in a tree, he assured us he would be following the advice given to him to ‘eat healthily'. Mavis Kinsey of Westley Waterless had a cryptic message which read, ‘may a little mouse in your house never shed a tear', she told us that the little mouse which she had indeed found in her house (brought in by her cat) did not shed a tear as luckily it was saved and then returned happily to the wild before the cat had its wicked way!

Gerrit and Annette de Zwaan of Gelderland in the Netherlands had a label that read ‘love and sunshine', their response was, ‘Gefeliciteerd! Wij vonden een ballon, met een kaartje van jullie! Wij wonen in Nederland' Unfortunely no one in the office speaks Dutch so we don't quite know what they said!

The Seeds

Each balloon is bio-degradable and contains a selection of native grasses and wild flower seeds. Finders of the balloon can sow the seeds at home and watch what will grow or set them into the wild where they found them. The Name of the seed mix is Cornfield Annuals and are native to the UK. The mix contains 6 native species of wild flowers (20%) and 80% of appropriate meadow grasses. The annual species included could be found in most cultivated soils and disturbed areas. They can be sown in a situation where 'instant' colour is required, or combined with other Boston Seeds mixtures containing perennial species when flowers are required during the first year. 

Contains 80% grasses (9 species) 20% wildflowers (6 species).
Sowing Rate: 5g/sq. m Pack size: 1kg (200 sq. m)