{"id":1683,"date":"2013-12-03T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:30:53","slug":"on-seeds-and-libraries-choosing-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/theharold\/2013\/12\/03\/on-seeds-and-libraries-choosing-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"On Seeds and Libraries: Choosing Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"seedLibrary_20130731-624x832\"<\/a>This is post number two in our series on the start of the Seed Lending Library! Today is a reflection on what seeds I decided to start with, and a little of the reasoning why. Originally, I thought I would include lettuce, tomatoes, chives, beans, and peas – but later found out that chives cross-pollinate from local varieties fairly easily, and need special care to ensure true-to-type offspring. So instead of chives, I’ve included a yummy eggplant variety.<\/p>\n

…I’ve decided to start with a handful of seeds. I’ve selected seeds that are easy to grow, easy to harvest, the seeds are easy to save, and they’re self-pollinating.<\/p>\n

I’m also going to try circulating these as individual plants. <\/em>Meaning, users can check out a ‘plant’ – each packet will include 3 seeds<\/del> 5 – 10 seeds – and they’re to return enough for another plant – so another 3 seeds<\/del> 5 – 10 seeds. If they return more, great! If they return just what they checked out, great! If they’re not able to harvest anything, that’s okay, too – we’ll have some protocols set up so that we can deal with seeds that don’t grow. I want to make this as low-risk as possible – I recognize checking out a seed is a little more risky than checking out a book. You don’t have to worry if your book doesn’t grow!<\/p>\n

Thursday I’ve got an appointment to talk to our cataloger about how to best integrate these into the catalog. Since I’m not adding the entirety of the collection right away, I imagine this process won’t be too daunting or time consuming, but I’ll know more on Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Originally posted August 5, 2013. You can read the original post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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