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rfmcdonaldMetro Toronto's Mary Warren reports on Toronto's seed library, something I should take advantage of next year.
There’s a card catalogue at the University of Toronto’s Robarts Library that does more than help people look for books.
Instead, what people find inside can one day turn into everything from beans to watermelons.
It’s one branch of the Toronto Seed Library, where people can “borrow” seeds through a program aimed at bringing gardening to people who might not otherwise be able to dig in.
The city’s 22 branch network has been growing since 2012 and has dispensed at least 100,000 seed packets — many of them to new Canadians and people who might not otherwise be into gardening, like high-rise renters.
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“Except where book libraries keep knowledge in the commons, seed libraries keep seeds part of the commons and accessible to everybody,” she said. “The idea is that, until very recently in history, you couldn’t buy seeds, everyone would just save and trade them amongst themselves.”
