Marquette, MI - The Peter White Public Library has added a new item for its patrons to check out – seeds. The Queen City Seed Library will make use of the wooden card catalog cabinet that once held library records, repurposing it to organize hundreds of envelopes of seeds. The seed library was created by ‘Transition Marquette County, MQT Growth, Partridge Creek Farm, and MSU North Farm following a visit to the seed library at the Munising Public Library. The process for checking seeds out is simple: choose seeds, mark what has been taken in a binder stored on top of the cabinet, and then plant them in your garden.
Mike Riesterer of Transition Marquette County, says they have received donations from Transition Marquette Seed Co-op and companies like Seed Savers Exchange and High Mowing Seeds to get the project started. Riesterer adds that to keep the project going, the groups hope to see gardeners saving seeds to bring to a Seed Swap in the fall.
