Blog Posts
Our gardens are down, the weather is finally committing to fall and Thanksgiving’s just a week away—what better time to say how much we appreciate all of you?
If you’ve ever grown plants from seed, you know how rewarding it is to watch a tiny bit of matter turn into melons and dill, flowers and zucchini. Growing from seeds you’ve saved takes that sense of wonder to another realm.
Dirty Gaia’s been busy! We packed up individual bundles of the carefully sourced and measured ingredients that form the bulding blocks of a seed library and sent them off to 14 libraries in the Mid-Hudson Library System
Nevermind the ice, snow and inhospitable temperatures. We’re approaching prime winter-sowing season in the Northeast.
For inspiration, we asked friends, teachers and mentors what nature-nurturing plans they have in mind for 2022.
Tour the Library of Local 2021 Seed Collection (Video)
Hard to believe that the summer days are running out. Hot days aside, for most of us the zucchini have given way to winter squash and tomato leaves are at the fight-the-blight stage…
The Morton Seed Library Garden is greeting spring with new compost, bamboo trellises for beans, crop rotation and the merciless banishment of weeds.
The Morton Seed Library’s First Annual Threshfest. K Greene shows us how to thresh wet and dry seeds. Later we all get to join in on the threshing.
The first seed swap of the Morton Seed Library in Rhinecliff, NY. Ken Greene leads us through the process and the importance of seed saving (Video)