“Check out” seeds for your spring and summer garden for free (and keep them!) with your library card at the Heirloom Seed Library at the Library Station, 2535 N. Kansas Expressway and Midtown Carnegie Branch Library, 397 E. Central St. The seed libraries are stocked from March through July.
Choose from a variety of vegetable, herb and flower heirloom seeds to borrow with your Springfield-Greene County Library card. Plant them at home or in your community garden and enjoy the harvest. If you wish, you can also learn how to collect and save the seeds at season’s end, and return them to the seed library so they can be used next year. Visit thelibrary.org/seedlibrary to learn more.
These heirloom seeds have been pollinated by natural means such as insects, birds or wind; not manipulated to become hybrid varieties. And, like your family heirlooms, they have been saved after the harvest and passed along to other gardeners. Visit thelibrary.org/seedcatalog to see all the varieties available in the Heirloom Seed Library. This year’s seed collection was provided by a team of seed savers and Master Gardeners; with funding from the Central High School Botanical Society and seed library official sponsor Farmers Gastropub.