The Becket Athenaeum Has FREE Seeds!
Our Seed Library is bursting with over 100 different varieties of seeds to grow delicious vegetables and sprouts! Thanks to the generosity of donors, these seeds are available for FREE to our patrons.
Come in to see all of the varieties available, plant them in your garden, and enjoy your harvest. If you can, please allow a few of your new plants to produce seeds to donate to the library so that we may offer them to other patrons.
Seed selections are limited and are subject to change.
Growing a garden will supply you and your family with tasty, nutrient-rich edibles and adorn your garden with glorious color.
By growing your garden organically and avoiding toxic synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, you are protecting and nurturing all wildlife
(including pollinating birds, insects, and soil organisms) and you are preventing water pollution, soil contamination, toxic runoff, and topsoil degradation. You are nurturing a safer, healthier environment for you, your family, and the future of the planet.
Learn more about gardening by checking out the many resources right here at the library or searching online.
Here are a few places to start:
Seed Savers Exchange
The Spruce: Top Gardening Websites
National Gardening Association
A Way to Garden
Gardening Channel: Gardening Resources-Best Gardening Sites
Cold Climate Gardening
Little Green Fingers: Getting Children Hooked on Gardening
Mother Earth News: Organic Gardening
Garden Therapy
Home Garden Joy
Seeds donated by:
Donations from Library Patrons & Community Members
Saving seeds is vital for many reasons, among them saving money, helping pollinators, preserving genetic diversity, and adapting plants to your particular climate and growing conditions. You can learn more here.
We encourage every gardener to allow a few plants to produce seeds to save for their next garden, to share with friends, or to donate to our Seed Library. You may also donate any leftover seeds that you don’t need. Please securely package seeds in sealed envelopes labeled with the type and variety of seed, the year they were harvested, and some simple growing directions. Also note if the seeds are organic and/or open-pollinated. We will include all donations in our Seed Library and share them with the rest of the community!
We’re grateful to our library patrons and community members who have shared some of their own seeds so that we can make them available to you.
