Little Free Community Library Read and Seed

04/26/2024

Seed library Plant portrait: Black Prince Snapdragon. I thought it's annual but all survived the winter on my front curb garden. Very nice dark foliage and dark red blossoms. We have seeds available in the library.

04/26/2024

Happy International Seeds Day!

Seed Libraries

04/16/2024

So far I have grown out the reckless kale mix - transplanted recently - and the colorful potato mix seeds (no growth detected as of yet) but I'm excited to see how the Kale mix will develop and hopefully add seeds to the library soon too.

Received my free seeds from goingtoseed.org today!if you're interested in landraces and trying new varieties check out the website and seed offer for 2024!

I got squash summer mix, reckless kale mix, Fukuoka's grab bag/everything else (I see diff corn, squash, bean, sunflower, calendula and many others) and probably most intriguing colorful potato seed mix! (Don't even know yet what to do with the last ones as I never had or saw potato seeds before!)

The task basically is to "grow these seeds without pampering and to save seeds from the tastiest, earliest and healthiest plants. Then send some of those seeds back to them and get early access to next year collection".

This should be fun and despite being overly slow this year I hope to get to grow out some of them!

04/16/2024

❗❗new growing groups "grow a row heroes" for 2024❗❗

Little Free Community Library Read and Seed will offer two growing groups again. Offering this within my Master Gardener volunteering. One like last year for Bush beans and one with the OSOS long Island Dill Seeds. Every participant will receive free seeds growing instructions and can ask questions etc in the Facebook groups. The goal is to create community by growing the same seed together and exchange the seeds among the participants and the seed library to have locally adapted strains (landrace). Please dm or comment if interested. Growing starts in May.

Oak Park Public Library

04/16/2024

Seed library Plant portrait: Orach ("purple spinach" ) one of the seeds we offer in the seed library, locally/cng grown - first picture shows new plants that are from last year plants that went to seed and re-seeded itself. Second picture are plants just upcoming from seeds I collected last year and put up recently. I still have some to offer in the seed library.
Eta I just started to harvest a couple of leaves so this makes a nice early spring salad before other plants are ready.

04/16/2024

Happy to say that One seed One state Mammoth Long Island Dill Seeds are finally there and ready to be picked up! I have around 12 packages ready right now. Comes with a little brochure with growing instructions. A few will be put in the big library house outdoors today. ❗❗ I would also like to offer a growers group again like last year, with these seeds where everyone grows and then shares seeds among each other (and a couple seeds for the seed library ) at the end if the season to get locally adapted seeds from it. This will be done through a FB group. Comment or DM if interested! ❗❗ETA the growers group/s will be offered with me being a Master Gardener.
Oak Park Public Library
Michigan Seed Libraries

04/02/2024

Our LFL was one of the Good Morning America book club winners for April! Book club pick has been revealed today and books are out in the library now!

04/02/2024

All available seeds have now been posted! See also in the pinned/feature section. Special thanks to all the local growers!❤ Comment or dm us with your list of seeds! Happy growing!

04/02/2024

Seed library list - mixed seeds from a recent additional seed donation

04/02/2024

Seed library list - Vegetables

04/02/2024

Seed library list Salads/Greens and Herbs.

Comment or DM if interested in any of the seeds.

04/02/2024

Seed library list flowers-natives-ornamentals

Dm/comment if interested in any seeds.