Definitely not against the rules and I’m positive you’ll get a long list of people willing to try your wares and show off the progress .
There’s also the options of doing a fundraiser sale talk to lemonade joe about setting that up .
auction off packs of seeds and donate a portion to the server fund . Tonygreens RIL Group Buy Grow Show (Closed) - #353 by JBow918
That’s a example of the shear number of packages that got ordered in a very short time .