Borrow seeds from Kwantlen Polytechnic University鈥檚 seed library this spring for Earth Day on Saturday, April 22.

Located inside KPU鈥檚 91原创 campus library, students, employees, and the broader community can borrow seeds from the shared collection of locally-grown seeds.

The concept is simple: 鈥渂orrow鈥� seeds of some of your favourite vegetables, and return an equivalent amount of seeds after harvesting.

Librarian Celia Brinkerhoff established the seed library with KPU horticulture students and instructors in 2013.

鈥淔or the home grower, seed saving doesn鈥檛 have to be daunting. Selecting open-pollinated, heirloom varieties of vegetables such as lettuce, tomatoes, peas and beans is a good place to start,鈥� she said.

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The seed library offers a variety of vegetables, from kale and cabbage to peas and peppers, herbs, and some flowers for pollinators, such as marigolds and sunflowers. New this season is a seed donation from West Coast Seeds, packaged by KPU horticulture students.

Seeds are arranged from easy to difficult, referring to the difficulty of saving seeds after harvest.

鈥淓ven those who don鈥檛 take seeds borrow the gardening and seed saving books on display.鈥�

To become a borrow from the library, all that鈥檚 needed is a KPU library card or a community borrower card for those outside the university. Community borrower cards are available at the service desk of any campus library.

The library accepts seed donations of all open-pollinated seed varieties.

More information on the seed library can be found at https://libguides.kpu.ca/seeds.

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