About Us
The Concord Seed Lending Library opened on April 22, 2013 which also happened to be Earth Day.
The Concord Seed Lending Library provides open pollinated vegetable and ornamental seeds and education about saving seeds and organic gardening. It is our hope that seed library patrons will return seeds from their harvest making the library self sustaining.
The Concord Seed Lending Library is open to all area residents at no charge. The Seed Lending Library is maintained by library personnel and volunteers and is supported by donations.
We want to thank Hasso Ewing, farmer, gardener, and landscape architect for giving us the idea for the Seed Lending Library.
The Concord Seed Lending Library provides open pollinated vegetable and ornamental seeds and education about saving seeds and organic gardening. It is our hope that seed library patrons will return seeds from their harvest making the library self sustaining.
The Concord Seed Lending Library is open to all area residents at no charge. The Seed Lending Library is maintained by library personnel and volunteers and is supported by donations.
We want to thank Hasso Ewing, farmer, gardener, and landscape architect for giving us the idea for the Seed Lending Library.
Our Mission
Our mission is to collect and share bio-diverse, locally-adapted plant seeds, cultivated by and for area residents. We are an initiative of the Concord Free Public Library and the community of Concord, MA.
We don't donate seed, we lend it. The object of a seed lending library is for people to borrow a few seeds, plant them, raise the plants, harvest the veggies and herbs or pick the flowers, and then let their best plants go to seed. The seed is then collected and a portion of the seed is returned to the seed lending library for others to use. We formed the lending library for the following reasons:
Our Logo |
Our logo was designed by Robert Hannan of Concord, MA who submitted the design as a part of our 2012 logo contest. We were delighted to receive so many exceptional entries and thank everyone involved.
Co-Founder
Enid Hart Boasberg recently retired from the Concord Library after 20 years of service. She has been gardening for over 30 years and saving seed for 2 years.. She is also one of the organizers of the Concord Food, Farm, and Garden Fair.
Co-Founder
Kitty Smith works at the Concord Public Library as a Technical Services Assistant. She previously worked in the high tech field for over 24 years. She has been a vegetable gardener for many years and was the Co-Coordinator for Cousins Field Community Garden in West Concord until October 2013.
Our steering committee:
Debbie Barr
Enid Hart Boasberg Alison DeMers Kitty Smith |