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The Seed Library of Los Angeles: checking out seeds at a monthly meeting. Seed library shelving, USA. A seed library is an institution that lends or shares seed.It is distinguished from a seedbank in that the main purpose is not to store or hold germplasm or seeds against possible destruction, but to disseminate them to the public which preserves the shared plant varieties through propagation ...
May 11—BLAKELY — By encouraging its patrons to plant gardens, Valley Community Library hopes to grow something more than flowers and vegetables. Valley Community launched its new seed library ...
Seed Savers Exchange, or SSE, is a non-profit organization based near Decorah, Iowa, that preserves heirloom plant varieties through regeneration, distribution and seed exchange. It is one of the largest nongovernmental seedbanks in the United States. [ 4 ]
A seed bank (also seed banks, seeds bank or seed vault) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. [1] There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, taste, etc. of crops.
Library Director Theresa Coish, who was the library director from 2009-2023, was an avid gardener and started a library garden behind the building.
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Some seed swaps explicitly have a biological goal—usually either educating the public in organic gardening or the attempt to maintain crop diversity. [8] [14] [16] The larger global relevance and beneficial long-range effects of ecological farming sustained by seed swaps, and the effects of such practices in countering the effects of agrichemical monoculture, are beginning to be studied.