{"id":183,"date":"2023-06-05T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicjoygarden.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T16:19:53","slug":"free-seed-catalog-at-mansfield-richland-county-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nativejoygarden.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf31 FREE SEED-Catalog at Mansfield Richland-County Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Have you seen one of these at your local library? It makes me so happy that these are being converted to a seed-sharing library! (Not to mention this is a wonderful way to re-purpose an outdated but amazing piece of furniture.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New Uses for Old Technology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A card-catalogue drawer chest was once used to house that old school Dewey-Decimal-Style note card system to show where each book was located on the library shelves. But! In our modern digitized era, not only are you able to read about this on our blog, here at OrganicJOYgarden.com you are also able to take advantage of a NEW-useful-old chest-of-drawers. It also does a great service to a library\u2019s surrounding yards ad gardens by encouraging local community gardening and seed-sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Seed-Saved is a Seed-Earned<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Remember the old days when farmers and backyard gardeners alike used to harvest and re-use their very own hard-grown crops every year and would calculate what to keep back for next year\u2019s garden starters? \u2026Neither do I. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But now! We can refer back to those old practices and make those rituals and routines from history our own! Who would have guessed the local library was the perfect place to go to find the latest inspiration for gardens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For centuries the only seeds available would have been those saved and\/or traded. Not even mail-ordered and certainly not drop-shipped! Through many different \u2018turns\u2019 in our good and not-so-good history (not to mention when those \u2018big-box\u2019 version stores became popular) many of our regional-local and indigenous heirloom seeds were lost forever. (Read more about the importance of seed-saving)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are a few of the seeds I am planting in my garden this year, can you tell which ones are from my local seed library? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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