What an awesome idea. I have never heard of such a thing. Going to see if I can find your FB page.

I can see people taking advantage of free seeds and never donating any back..I don't see how this could work. Why not just donate the seeds to BakeMom and she will see that newbies get some seeds to start out with.

Sounds great, anything is worth a try. Hope it works out well for you. Probably will lose quite a few but your regular customers will have a local library to go for their seeds. There are still many who love to share and will be more than glad it is there. At the same time it will tell more about the type of people you live with there. I remember quite a few years back I lived in the Denver area and I ran across a sale on Burpee seeds for 5 cents a pack. Not having much money I did manage to buy $25 worth and took what I was not going to plant to Church. I offered them for the same price I paid for them. Well it got sent around and I lost sight of my seeds. At the end of our meeting someone brought me my sack back with the money in the bag. I was kind of worry as I could not afford to give them away but to my surprise there were seeds left over not counting the seeds I kept for my own use and there was well over $25 in the sack so I ended up getting my seeds for free plus having more to plant later. So no one knows if it will work out it will just depend on if they are real gardeners or? I wish you well. :)

Los Angeles has one also. Although I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

Los Angeles has one also. Although I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.

We started a living seed bank here in Northern Humboldt County, Seeds For Life a Living Seed Bank. after researching all the current seed libraries and banks we decided to create a living seed bank...where we train seed stewards to breed and save locally adapted seed. They keep some for replanting so they can continue to breed for improvement and turn some over to the bank where we will give it out to anyone who wants it through a seed sharing program. Check us out on Face Book!

What a great idea. I would think that people who are interested in something like that would take the responsibility of returning the seeds pretty seriously. Hope it works out.

Funny you should mention this, my town library has a talk scheduled for November 10th called "What is a Seed Lending Library?" I will definitely plan to attend the talk and most likely will participate. I love to save seed, do some seed trades with GW members, and also offer seeds for postage on the Seed Exchange forum every winter.

I really hope that something like this works. I would think it'd be best to give a small pamplet with the seeds, maybe a pdf or something, that teaches the best way to save the seed that they're "checking out".

You could also request information about the seeds, time it takes them to grow, etc, pictures. It could end up pretty quicking becoming a wealth of knowledge if people have the interest.

I use a software program to hold all my finds on any seed or plant I enjoy. When I find information here or else where on the web I store the information on the program which I can find anytime by name or type, etc. When I depend on others saving information that is fine but for me it is much harder to research. So I do thank everyone for their efforts but I like to also have a central location on my computer where it is much easier to find at my finger tips. They do sell seeds saver books on a very wide range of plants. You could check for information here on the book link. A lot of information can be found on the web but then it may not have the information on the one seed you would like to save. That is when I come here to look and save that information on my computer for later reference.