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NB COMMUNITY HARVEST GARDENS

Seed Library

Our 2025 Seed Library is now open! Check out our Seed Catalogue

The Seed Library is a longstanding partnership between NBCHG and the Fredericton Public Library. We offer locally-adapted, open-pollinated, non-genetically modified seeds to the community at no cost to growers. We have a large selection of popular herbs, flowers, vegetables and annual fruits. 

2025 FPL Seed Library Catalogue [PDF]

Seeds are available at both library branches:

Fredericton North – Nashwaaksis Middle School – 324 Fullerton Avenue

Fredericton South – 12 Carleton Street 

NB Community harvest garden seed library

Can’t find what you’re looking for?

NB Community Harvest Gardens has a limited quantity of other seeds used in our programming that may interest you – please email our Garden Director Carol Muncer at carol@nbchg.org for more information.

How Do I Participate?

All you need is your library card and a willingness to:

To learn about seed saving and try to save seeds to donate back to the library

Try to grow your own food using organic practices (no chemical/synthetic pesticides or fertilizers)

How the Seed Library Works

  • Visit the Reference Desk at either branch, choose your seeds and sign them out.  
  • We ask that you limit your selection to one package of each variety, and to a maximum of six packages per visit.  Feel free to return to pick up more on another visit.
  • Seeds are pre-packaged in quantities that the average family of four would be planting. 
  • Members who successfully save seeds are asked to return more seeds than they borrowed to the library at the end of the growing season (remembering to keep some for yourself). By doing this our Seed  Library will be sustainable.

Seed Saving Tips

We understand that due to circumstances beyond your control, you may not have seeds to return to the Seed Library – please don’t worry, you are still welcome to continue borrowing seeds in the future. 

We recommend that you attend a Seed Saving workshop.  For more information about upcoming Fredericton Public Library workshops or to be added to the FPL’s programming email list, please contact the Young Adult and Adult Services Dept:  460-2829 – ftonpub@gnb.ca.

We also have some documents you can download or print, with tips about how to save some of the most commonly grown vegetable varieties available in our Resource Library.

Seed Saving Guide [PDF]

Some seeds are easy to save, but others take a bit more skill.  Feel free to contact us if you have questions about seed saving. Thanks and happy seed saving!

You Can Feed Our Growth

NBCHG is funded through a combination of grants, community garden memberships and individual donations. 

While we have had many wonderful, repeat funders, we cannot guarantee what our funding stream will be from one year to the next. We are asking for the community’s continued help in supporting our mission to grow food, grow minds and grow community.

If you are in a position to contribute financially, please consider a monthly or annual donation to help us shift the food sovereignty paradigm from scarcity to abundance.

You contribution helps us maintain:

  • A pay-what-you-can community teaching farm model to allow everyone to participate in our local food system
  • A living wage for our experienced staff, and fair compensation to bring knowledge keepers and experts in as guest educators
  • Yearly supplies, equipment, and maintenance of farm and garden infrastructure

Two Ways You Can Support Us

ONE TIME DONATION

MAIL cheque to:

NBCHG Membership
577 Hillcrest Drive
Fredericton, NB  E3A 2X8
  

Please make cheques payable to NBCHG Inc.

OR

E-TRANSFER to:

NBCHGmembership@gmail.com

MONTHLY DONATION

Support us with a regular monthly donation via our page at chuffed.org

If you are not able to donate at this time, please help spread the word about the important work we do. Or check out our Volunteer page for the many other ways you can contribute.

Woliwon, Wela’lin, Merci, Thank you!

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