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How to Start a Community Seed Library – Morag Gamble visits Lampeter Seed Library

Have you every heard of a seed library? Every community should have something like this!

I recently came across this wonderful Lampeter Seed Library in Lampeter Wales, connected to Lampeter Permaculture and Transition Lampeter. I immediately wanted to share their fabulous story to help ripple this positive initiative to other communities. I really believe in what they are doing and in the vital importance of saving and sharing good quality organic non-hybrid seed.

This is such a fabulous community initiative that ensures people have access to good quality organic non-hybrid seeds to grow good healthy food that is adapted to the local conditions.

A short film about the Seed Library

In this 10 minute film, learn how it works and why we should all be saving and sharing our seeds.

What is a Seed Library?

A seed library is essentially a local exchange system, just like borrowing a book from a library. You can borrow seeds and when you grow more, you return them to the library so they can continue to be distributed. The idea is that the library grows over time in both volume and diversity – particularly of older open-pollinated local varieties.

A community seed library is in fact a positively radical system in a world where we’ve lost over 80% of the diversity of edible plants in the past 100 years, and where it is illegal to sell seeds you save.

This women-led project seeks to connect their local community, build local resilience, help people grow great food and build up the strength of local varieties for food sovereignty and food security, and to reduce the control that corporate seed giants have over our food system.

Why not start a seed library in your local market, local neighbourhood, community centre or school too?

 

SOME LINKS

Lampeter Seed Library is an initiative of Lampeter Permaculture (Wales) and they have a seed farm at Denmark Farm – a conservation centre . Lampeter Seed Library is part of the local Transition Town Initiative

Here’s another video the group just made  about their Seed Library

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