LibGuides: Canton Seed Library: Seed Starting & Saving

Online Resources

National Gardening Association
The National Gardening Association teaches people how to get started gardening and improve their plant growing skills, provides online tools that help gardeners connect, teach, share, and trade with each other, and helps gardeners research information through the continuous development of the world's largest database of plants.
Organic Seed Alliance
Organic Seed Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that puts the power of seed into the hands of growers. Our work ensures an abundant and diverse supply of ecologically grown seed, tended in perpetuity by skilled and diverse communities of seed stewards. To advance this mission, we serve growers working with seed across the US at any scale through participatory research, practical education, policy advocacy, and network development. We prioritize partnerships with organizations and individuals aligned with our values, and we convene spaces where divergent viewpoints can be expressed and explored. In all our work, we ally ourselves with and embrace opportunities to amplify movements for community sovereignty, racial equity, and social justice.
Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library
The Richmond Grows Seed Lending Library website provides free online resources about gardening, seed saving, and starting your own seed library.
Seed Libraries
This website features free resources on how to start a library, how to connect with others who have started libraries and offers resources and insight into how to maintain a library once started.
Seed Savers Exchange
Seed Savers Exchange stewards America’s culturally diverse and endangered garden and food crop legacy for present and future generations. We educate and connect people through collecting, regenerating, and sharing heirloom seeds, plants, and stories.

Films

Open Sesame : The Story of Seeds
Call Number: Kanopy

Publication Date: 2014

Open Sesame looks at the extraordinary challenges that seeds face, placing our food supply at risk and threatening our farms. In it you will meet a diverse range of individuals whose lives center around seeds. Farmers, renegade gardeners, passionate seed savers, artists and activists all work to plant the seeds of information and inspiration within this film that tells the story of one of our most precious resources.
Seeds of Time: Saving Our Food Supply in the Face of Climate Change
Call Number: Kanopy

Publication Date: 2014

Could one massive infestation of fungus, blight or insects cause all the world's corn, wheat or lettuce to die? Is modern agriculture setting the stage for economic disaster, food riots, and global starvation? Dr. Fowler is the head of an international consortium to store seeds from every agricultural plant in the world. But is his farsighted program enough to save humanity from annihilation?
Seed: The Untold Story
Call Number: Kanopy

Publication Date: 2016

Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed-keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. These farmers, scientists, lawyers and indigenous people are fighting a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.