![The Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library in the main Richmond Public Library (in Richmond, California) enables area residents to “borrow” seeds from its collection and “return” seeds from the plants grown from them.
“An offshoot of Richmond Rivets, an organization building community resilience to climate change and fossil fuel shortages, Richmond Grows is part of a network of homegrown programs like Urban Tilth, which promotes food gardening in schools and on the Richmond Greenway (the repurposed former Southern Pacific right of way) and the Five Percent Local Coalition, pushing local food production.”
“A couple dozen Richmond residents have already signed up to check out seed. [Project co-founder Catalin] Kaser describes them as ‘people from all the neighborhoods, not just middle-class urban gardeners.’ Some are apartment-dwellers with limited growing space. ‘We hope it becomes a way people can connect. I’ve seen people at the orientations offering to share cuttings.’ For some, it’s as basic as food on the table. But Kaser knows a local gardener who doesn’t like vegetables, and gives his crops away: ‘He grows his vegetables just because he can.’”
Appropriately, the seeds are stored in an old library card catalog (cabinet).
Full story: Seed-saver library sprouts in Richmond [CA] — SFGate.com
[hat tip to Irene Nelson (@irenelson on Twitter]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6u4tqDOqS1qzv12bo1_500.jpg)
The Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library in the main Richmond Public Library (in Richmond, California) enables area residents to “borrow” seeds from its collection and “return” seeds from the plants grown from them.
“An offshoot of Richmond Rivets, an organization building community resilience to climate change and fossil fuel shortages, Richmond Grows is part of a network of homegrown programs like Urban Tilth, which promotes food gardening in schools and on the Richmond Greenway (the repurposed former Southern Pacific right of way) and the Five Percent Local Coalition, pushing local food production.”
“A couple dozen Richmond residents have already signed up to check out seed. [Project co-founder Catalin] Kaser describes them as ‘people from all the neighborhoods, not just middle-class urban gardeners.’ Some are apartment-dwellers with limited growing space. ‘We hope it becomes a way people can connect. I’ve seen people at the orientations offering to share cuttings.’ For some, it’s as basic as food on the table. But Kaser knows a local gardener who doesn’t like vegetables, and gives his crops away: ‘He grows his vegetables just because he can.’”
Appropriately, the seeds are stored in an old library card catalog (cabinet).
Full story: Seed-saver library sprouts in Richmond [CA] — SFGate.com
[hat tip to Irene Nelson (@irenelson on Twitter]
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