CCSL Seed Garden Guild: Learning to save seeds and sustain the Como Community Seed Library seed supply.

Seed Saving is a skill that has been practised by humans for millennia. Seeds have traveled with people as they’ve moved across the globe seeking out new places to grow and inhabit sometimes voluntarily and many times involuntarily.  Seeds ensured people would be able to grow food and medicine that they knew to be safe, edible and were intimately connected to the culture and land they were leaving.

In 2025 CCSL created the Seed Garden Guild to  focus on increasing our community’s capacity to save seed and grow a wider variety of locally adapted open pollinated, heirloom varieties of produces, herbs, native plants and annual flowers from which to save seeds and stock the CCSL collection. To make it easy for participants this growing season they had their choice of  tomato and pepper varieties that were started from seed that was in many cases locally saved in our community or from local plant breeders. They could also choose seeds or plants they already had or from a list of seeds CCSL had available specifically for stewarding this season with the caveat that they be open pollinated heirloom varieties.

 The guild and other community members will have the chance to talk about their growing challenges, harvesting best practices, and  explore  seed saving strategies that make use of common household tools and supplies in a series of  Summer Garden Conversations at Como Park Lutheran Church on Sunday July 20th  and Sunday August 17th 11am-12pm. This series of conversations builds on previous community learning sessions started last summer organized around the Como Grow a Row initiative in partnership with  Como Park Lutheran Church’s hunger ministries and giving garden. 

 To sign up for the Seed Garden Guild please follow this link. If you’d like to share your garden produce abundance through the Como Grow a Row initiative sign up at this link

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2025 Little Free Library Seed Collections stocked in the Como Park Neighborhood