Charlotte Seed Library
This is a project of the Charlotte Library, to encourage and support our community’s home food producers and seed savers. It is part of a network of Seed Libraries and Seed Savers worldwide which promote the growing of heirloom varieties and keeping the seeds in the hands of the people.
Join us for a two-session discussion of The New Heirloom Garden, April 16th and 23rd
The Charlotte Seed Library 2021 Catalog is available! Click here to check it out, and read our February Seed Fever Blog Post to find out more about how to get your seeds.
Happy planning – and planting!
Latest from the Blog…
- The New Heirloom GardenWhat is an Heirloom Garden? Charlotte Seed Library and Charlotte Grange invite you to join Seed Library Coordinator Karen Tuininga and award-winning Vermont author and kitchen garden designer Ellen Ecker Ogden, for a two-part presentation/discussion about gardening with heirloom varietiesContinue reading “The New Heirloom Garden”
- Join the Seed Library Network of Gardeners!Getting your seeds organized for this year’s vegetable garden? Some, like tomatoes, you’ll want to start now inside in your sunniest window or under grow lights; and some things like peas can go into the ground now, as soon asContinue reading “Join the Seed Library Network of Gardeners!”
- SEED FEVER!February is Seed Fever month, when gardeners’ fingers start itching to touch soil and seeds. Garden plans swirl in our heads. We try to remember lessons learned from past gardens, and new ideas we want to try. We start toContinue reading “SEED FEVER!”
Ongoing Seed Library Programs
Community
Seed Sharing
We’ve wrapped up the Community Seed Sharing program for 2020.
Thanks for participating, and check out our latest blog post about saving seeds so you’ll have even more to share for next year!
Seedlings to Share
We’ve wrapped up the Seedlings to Share program for 2020.
It was so wonderful to see gardeners coming together to share seedlings among themselves and to plant it forward to help feed our community.
Thank you for participating!
Adopt-an-Heirloom
Help the Seed Library maintain a stock of diverse and popular heirloom vegetable, herb, and edible or pollinator-friendly flower seeds to make available in the community next year. Choose something from the Seed Library or use one (or two, or three?) special favorites you grow already and have saved their seeds. Interested in becoming a Seed Library Steward by Adopting an Heirloom to grow this year and save some of its seeds? Contact…
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Ancient proverb
Resources
Be sure to visit our Resources page for articles and links about gardening and seed saving. If you’re looking for some particular information or how-to’s, please contact us and let us know how we can help you!
About Us
The Charlotte Seed Library is a program of the Charlotte Public Library in Charlotte, Vermont.
