#Tennessee: #NashvillePublicLibrary #SeedExchange

"The Seed Exchange offers access to local librarians who will support, coach, and cheer you on as you grow your own home, school, church, or community garden. The best part about our Seed Exchange: it’s free! All you need is a library card."

Borrow Seeds

"Use your library card to borrow vegetable, herb, and flower seeds at Main Library and select branches. Find a Seed Exchange location near you. Borrowing seeds is free. All you need is a Nashville Public Library card."

Grow Plants

"NPL’s Seed Exchange offers access to local librarians who will support, coach and cheer you on as you grow your own home, school, church or community garden. We’re also working with local farmers, gardeners and community agencies to offer free gardening workshops throughout the year."

Return Seeds

"Once the season is over, harvest seeds from your garden and return them to the library. We ask that you follow certain protocol when harvesting seeds to share with the Seed Exchange. We want people who take seed to get what was on the label and we want to protect from passing on disease.

"Additionally, we are always looking for #OpenPollinated, #HeirloomSeeds from anyone in the community who is willing to share, a little or a lot.

"Our Seed Protocol [linked below] includes guidelines for properly saving and preparing seeds to share."

https://library.nashville.org/events/seed-exchange

Seed protocol:
https://library.nashville.org/about/policies/seed-protocol
#SolarPunkSunday #LibrariesRule #SeedLibrary #SeedSharing #BuildingCommunity #Gardening

Local public library’s seed library is happening again. We also exchange seeds with a neighbor. When we do need to buy seeds, we love what has become our favorite seed company: Sow True Seed. And today we received their 2025 seed catalog.

#SowTrueSeed is in Asheville, North Carolina. Although their community was devastated by #Hurricane Helene, their business was largely unscathed. Their seed inventory did not wash away, their employees are safe, and their building intact. Free shipping on orders through December. https://sowtrueseed.com/pages/about

We’re grateful to our longtime friend Charlotte in South Carolina for introducing us to Sow True Seed, which became a worker-owned cooperative in 2022.

#NonGMO #CouncilOfResponsibleGenetics #SafeSeedPledge #Gardening #OrganicGardening #Organic #Pollinator #OpenPollinated #SmallFarmerGrown #SustainableFood #RegenerativeAgriculture #Garden #Seeds

The first of my royal purple & golden sweet #SnowPeas have emerged. I grow the more commonly known green Oregon snow peas too. I love eating #peas - fresh n raw from the garden or cooked.

#FoodPlants #FoodSecurity #GrowingFood #GrowYourOwnFood #plants #Gardening #GrownFromSeed #Zone8 #Saanich #YYJ #peppers #VictoriaBC #FoodGrowers #Wsanec #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #PNW #EdibleGardening #PlantsYouCanEat #OpenPollinated

#TrueLoveSeeds ##SeedSavers #CulturallyImportant #OpenPollinated #Foodsovereignty #Sustainability

https://trueloveseeds.com/

#GeneticDiversity in our crops is incredibly important for #FoodSecurity and truly #sustainable #agriculture.

Yesterday M harvested a little plot of an #indigenous variety of #corn he'd planted specifically to reproduce the seed. It turns out the seed was crossed, with very few true to variety cobs being harvested. But so it goes with #OpenPollinated seed sourced from the #campesino #community.

We'll see what he does with this seed. It did produce spectacularly well.

Got #gardening on your mind as we move through winter?

Get #organic, #OpenPollinated seeds from my brother, now. (Especially if you live in the #Midwest.)
https://ctcseeds.com/pages/about-us