hi,
it's a long time I did'nt post on petfly.....sorry, terraforum.
I'm the builder of Carnibank, a seed exchange bank from France.
This bank is dedicated to CP seeds exchange.
rules are easy :
you send me your seeds + a SEASE, and I send you the seeds you want.
seeds must be of a same "value" , and that's it, in great lines.
I have users in every country (nearly ! ) , but not in the USA.....why that ? (ok, I have some very few)
because of many restrictions, papers to fill, documents & signatures to collect....
After some 5 years of heading Carnibank, I'm about to resign, to lead some other projects...for example, I intend to extand our seeds-for-free-for-newbies-to-CP's program that I run in the french speaking area ( luky people ! ) if I can source some seeds in good quantities and some other kind of things.....
ok, now to the thing I'm here for :
what about creating a Carnibank in the USA ?
dedicated to the US american area, to facilitate legal seeds exchanges between people, to have the opportunity to enter new species in US collections, and for so many more reasons too...
are you interrested in this idea ?
we need some webspace to build up the site, a person interrested in running the bank + the website (I have a easy-to-apply solution that requires NO programming knowledge etc.... ) , some dozens of different seeds species, and some papers....
we build the site, I send a seed collection to USA (samples of 90% of my programm, I guess, that makes something like 100/150 species at the start of the US exchange program) and of course, we fill the papers to legalize all the seed import.
to help us doing that, the US Government (the department of Agriculture) developped some new rules and built the "Small Lots of Seed" programm ; this programm allows any US resident to obtain easily an authorization to import "lots" of seeds, if these seeds are not weeds or things like that.....
I know there is some work, but it's possible.....
ok.....now it's your turn to talk
it's a long time I did'nt post on petfly.....sorry, terraforum.
I'm the builder of Carnibank, a seed exchange bank from France.
This bank is dedicated to CP seeds exchange.
rules are easy :
you send me your seeds + a SEASE, and I send you the seeds you want.
seeds must be of a same "value" , and that's it, in great lines.
I have users in every country (nearly ! ) , but not in the USA.....why that ? (ok, I have some very few)
because of many restrictions, papers to fill, documents & signatures to collect....
After some 5 years of heading Carnibank, I'm about to resign, to lead some other projects...for example, I intend to extand our seeds-for-free-for-newbies-to-CP's program that I run in the french speaking area ( luky people ! ) if I can source some seeds in good quantities and some other kind of things.....
ok, now to the thing I'm here for :
what about creating a Carnibank in the USA ?
dedicated to the US american area, to facilitate legal seeds exchanges between people, to have the opportunity to enter new species in US collections, and for so many more reasons too...
are you interrested in this idea ?
we need some webspace to build up the site, a person interrested in running the bank + the website (I have a easy-to-apply solution that requires NO programming knowledge etc.... ) , some dozens of different seeds species, and some papers....
we build the site, I send a seed collection to USA (samples of 90% of my programm, I guess, that makes something like 100/150 species at the start of the US exchange program) and of course, we fill the papers to legalize all the seed import.
to help us doing that, the US Government (the department of Agriculture) developped some new rules and built the "Small Lots of Seed" programm ; this programm allows any US resident to obtain easily an authorization to import "lots" of seeds, if these seeds are not weeds or things like that.....
I know there is some work, but it's possible.....
ok.....now it's your turn to talk