Community Corner
Seed Library Open In Woodstock
The library wants people to bring back the vegetables they grow to help feed hungry families coming to their food pantry.
WOODSTOCK, IL (CBS) — According Martha Hansen, Assistant Director of the Woodstock Public Library, the library received an unusual gift. “We received a box of seeds, vegetable seeds for planting. All in hundreds and hundreds of packets. All different types of varieties of tomatoes, peas, radishes, turnips, Swiss chard,” Hansen said.
The library staff and a local high school key club organized all the seeds into little drawers. An old card catalogue from the 1930s is now being used for the “pop-up” seed library. But there’s a twist. In a traditional seed library, gardeners “borrow” seeds and then bring back more seeds at the end of the growing season. But the library wants people to bring back the vegetables they grow to help feed hungry families coming to their food pantry.
