Seed Lending Library
Exciting News for 2024!
The Seed Library will open on Monday, March 25th at noon!
If you have seeds to donate please contact Melissa by email at melissa@carolibrary.org or by phone 989-673-4329 ext 107.
Our Mission
The Seed Lending Library's mission is to promote a community that values gardening and seed saving through seed lending. In addition to providing access to free heirloom and open pollinated seeds, we hope to help support gardeners and seed savers from beginner to expert, through the process of growing, harvesting, seed saving, and seed sharing.
About Us
We started passing out seeds in 2012 and our program has grown each year. Our goal is to encourage the community to save seeds and prove that seed saving is a vital life skill. We want to bring the community together and show patrons how to grow some of their own food, reduce food cost, return flavor back into food, help the environment, create a sense of self reliance, and pass along seeds from early generations.
How Does the Seed Lending Library Work?
In the early spring, the Seed Lending Library has our annual seed pass out. We encourage seed guardians to pick an easy seed pack to grow and save, and then a harder seed pack to grow and enjoy. Each patron takes home their seed packets, plants the seeds, watch them grow, enjoy the harvest, and then try to save the seed. You can be a beginner gardener or an expert. Just come and try it out! Anyone is more than welcome to participate.
How to Save Seeds
Home Grown Food Series
The Seed Saving Library started the Home Grown Food Series in 2014 to show our patrons how to bring our seeds from our gardens to our tables.
Seed Resources
Click here for more outside resources to help with sustainability, seed saving, and gardening:
- http://www.seedsavers.org
- http://www.richmondgrows.org
- http://www.reneesgarden.com/
- http://www.anniesheirloomseeds.com/
- http://www.seedlibrary.org/
Garden-to-Table Recipes
2017 Recipes and Instructions
2016 Recipes and Instructions
2015 Recipes
All American Walk of the Garden Stir Fry