Cedar Springs is a 501(c) three ecological Conservancy restoring forest and watershed health while providing educational and community access.
The mountain ranch seed library began in 2023 after many years of hosting small intimate, Seeds swaps in the local resource center, farms, and Town Hall. The seed exchanges were growing in size with more people attending, and bringing their seeds from their own gardens and farms to save and share with the community. The seed library was created to promote the highest quality seeds in education around gardening, farming and ranching, Permaculture, and basic agrarian homesteading practices. The mountain ranch seed, library, donates, roughly 3000 seed packets each year to 500 people in the community. There are several pounds of bulk seeds that are shared as well.
We hope to create ecological resilience in our bioregion by creating and saving locally proven seeds that are fit for our environment and are nutritionally dense and delicious food. We hope to inspire an agrarian, cooperative and food hub where peoples livelihoods and purpose of gathering, are around food and tending the land.
Gardening creates a relationship between a person and all other living beings. That relationship fosters care and stewardship practices that are regenerative to the land, the many systems of ecological function, social dynamics in our families and communities, and the quality of our economic growth.
The mountain ranch seed library is working to collaborate with the local high school agriculture department. We hope that the students will be able to start our seeds for people in the community that do not have greenhouses and are growing in shorter seasons.
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