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Concord Seed Lending Library
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The mission of the Concord Seed Lending Library is to collect and share bio-diverse, locally-adapted plant seeds, cultivated by and for area residents. We are an initiative of the Concord Free Public Library and the community of Concord, MA.
We don't donate seed, we lend it. The object of a seed lending library is for people to borrow a few seeds, plant them, raise the plants, harvest the veggies and herbs or pick the flowers, and then let their best plants go to seed. The seed is then collected and a portion of the seed is returned to the seed lending library for others to use. We formed the lending library for the following reasons:
It is important for the sustainability of agriculture, that gardeners use open pollinated, heirloom seeds and that we save that seed to insure our biodiversity. Too many plant varieties have been lost and are no longer available in the seed catalogs.
Public libraries are a logical place to house seed collections.
The library has resources (books, periodicals, audio, eBooks, articles) so that gardeners can learn how to plant, grow and harvest seeds
We are gardeners as well as librarians and we know how to categorize and catalog seeds - Service
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