By Parkland Permaculture Guild

Prince Albert Seed Library Introduction

Apr 14, 2016 | 12:26 PM

A Seed Library will be introduced by John M. Cuelenaere Public Library and the Parkland Permaculture Guild during the Earth Day and Seedy Saturday celebrations at the Library on April 23rd.

What is a seed Lending Library?

Just as you can check out books, you can check out vegetable and flowers seeds at the library, with the understanding that you will grow these seeds and save some seeds of these plants to be returned to the Library where they then will be stored to lend out again for the following growing season.

We are calling all gardeners to save some seeds from their favourite plants and share them with the Library.

To start with, you can bring any heirloom seeds that you have already saved to Seedy Saturday and more specifically to the seed swap table.

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Also, we encourage growers to plant a few extra seeds, and in fall harvest the seeds for the seed Library.

Why a seed lending library?

A seed library helps to maintain seed bio-diversity, maintain local seed genetics, to share seeds with others, and provides an opportunity to gather and share knowledge.

Bio diversity if important to our survival on the planet.

Humans have traditionally saved seeds from growing season to growing season and only within the last 50 years have we started to rely on seed companies to do so.

But as the seed growing industry has been concentrated to a very few corporations we are losing varieties, and therefore genetic material, that were specific to our regions. The public library has the expertise in cataloguing and sharing information and there is no better place to host a seed library. Why is bio-diversity so important? Just like we are losing animal species to extinction we are also losing seed varieties and their associated genes to extinction. In any system diversity is important. It does not matter if you talk about diversification in farming, diversity in terms of your micro biome in your body, or even diversity in terms of the foods we eat.

They all create resilience in withstanding adverse conditions.

It has become ever more important for different bioregions to save the seeds that do well for that area and maintain those genetics.

Seed lending libraries have been established all over North America that collectively maintain thousands of locally adapted seed varieties. Information on how to save seeds, while maintaining their unique traits will be available as a resource for novice gardeners and seed savers at Seedy Saturday.

So, come join us at John M Cuelenaere Public Library on April 23rd at 1:30 pm for the introduction of the seed library or better yet, plan to spend all day from 9:30am to 4:30pm to enjoy free movies, lunch, displays and music.

Please contact for more information: Farah Fox Parkland Permaculture Guild (306) 929-2022 John M. Cuelenaere Public Library (306) 763-8496 RENE BLOM RR 4, SITE 111, BOX 50 PRINCE ALBERT, SK. CANADA, S6V 5R2 306.9226292 306-9606892