Seed Library Re-Launch

I spent the afternoon sorting garden seeds into smaller packets in preparation for the spring launch of our Seed Library on April 1 (no fooling). This marks the fourth year that we have had a lending library for garden seeds here at the Collingwood Public Library. A Seed Library, for those of you who are new to the idea, is a community-created library of garden seeds that are free to loan to anyone interested in growing their own garden.  Obviously, a seed library is a lending library only in the most extreme sense of the word “lending,” since you can’t return a seed once you’ve planted it in the ground.  But you can save some seed at the end of the growing season and return it to the library for use the following year.  That is how a Seed Library is supposed to work.  In practice though, it doesn’t, …or rather it hasn’t, and that is something that I’m hoping to change.

To that end, we have invited Jaden Calvert to the library on Saturday, April 9, at 1 pm, to run a seed-saving workshop.  Jaden was one of the founders of the Meaford Seed Library and is very knowledgeable about how to save garden seeds. I am hoping that he will instill some confidence is those of us who have never done this before, and we will see an overflowing seed library collection for 2017.

If this is something that interests you, please feel welcome to attend.  The workshop is free…just like the seeds.