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Library at Community Garden
This was The Greenville Public Library's first year for a garden plot
at the Bish Discovery Center Community Garden on Ohio Street.
Librarians Caitlyn Clark and Warren Richards planted Cinderella
Pumpkins, Long Island Dill, Rosie Basil and Cherokee Purple
Tomatoes. Caitlyn started the seeds in February and has been
going out to the plot with Warren to maintain them. They have
already started harvesting the pumpkins and dill for the Growing
Harvest Seed Library.
All of the seeds came from the Library's very own Growing Harvest Seed
Library and will be available for patrons to take soon. Growing
Harvest opened in May 2014 when they started with 25 members and 100
seed packets purchased from Baker’s Creek Heirloom Seeds. Now
they have 350 varieties of seeds available for borrowing and 173
registered members.
Growing Harvest has gained 3 new donors this year: Companion Seeds,
Rural King’s Livingston Seeds, and Bish Discovery Center. Other
donors provide over 1000 seed packets a year such as Baker's, Seed
Saver's Exchange, Hudson Valley Seed Library, and many more, not
counting locally grown seeds returned by members.
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