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Home gardeners all over the United States are having trouble getting seeds. Companies say demand is up 6 to 8 times more than usual which has a lot of us looking for alternative sources. Naomi Robbins started the Wellfleet Seed Library in 2015.
“Over several years of working at the reference desk I fielded so many questions from gardeners and from people who wanted to maybe start a garden for the first time and I found myself recommending books and then eventually bringing in seeds for them and this developed into this idea of starting a seed library,” Naomi said.
It started out small. But with the pandemic came a big uptick in interest.