Questions we keep answering

Yes. Take three packets home, grow them, and return saved seed of at least one if you can. If the season beats you, come back anyway; the register forgives.

No. Roughly half our borrowers kill their first crop of something, and the library has never once minded. Start with the Ledger Lettuce.

A strain handed down and kept true by people, not a trademark. Every packet in the register names the family or grower it came from, and we print their notes with it.

Never. Untreated, open-pollinated, grown in our own fields or by named growers we can call.

The packing barn is unlocked during daylight, and someone is usually at the seed bench by 8. If the flag is up, come in.

We hand things over at the bench, by design. The catalog tells you what we grow; the visit gets you the seed.