[Michlib-l] Great news from the Upper Peninsula!

[Noah Lenstra]

*Queen City Seed Library opens for 2021 season*
https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2021/05/21/queen-city-seed-library-opens-for-2021-season/
MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - The Queen City Seed Library has now reopened to
the public for the 2021 season.

Located on the main floor of the Peter White Public Library, this
volunteer-run community organization has been providing seeds to anyone who
would like to start a garden — and learn to harvest and save seeds — since
2016.

During pandemic-related closures, Queen City Seed Library remained active
with online seed swaps and no-contact pickup options.

Thanks to volunteers, the Seed Library cabinet is stocked for this
gardening season.

Stored in a beautiful antique card catalogue, a wide variety of annual
vegetable seeds are available to “borrow” — the same way library books are
“borrowed.” At the end of the growing season, those who have used the seed
library are asked to harvest seeds from the plants they grew, and just like
returning a library book, “return” seeds to the seed library to replace the
“borrowed” seeds.

Seed saving workshops, online help, and an annual Seed Swap are offered
each year to support seed sharing and seed saving.

The Queen City Seed Library organizers are guided by the words of seed
activist Sara McCamant, who has said “To make a stronger local food system,
we need to continually work at bringing more local seed into that food
system.”

A seed library does just that. The Queen City Seed Library is open whenever
the Peter White Library is open. For more information, please email
queencityseedlibrary at gmail.com.

Noah Lenstra
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science
University of North Carolina Greensboro
njlenstr at uncg.edu
noahlenstra.com
@NoahLenstra
Author, Healthy Living at the Library
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Director of Let's Move in Libraries <http://letsmovelibraries.org/>
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