Hello Gardeners!
Good News!
There will be more frequent and more convenient seed pickups starting May 6th!
Starting May 6th I will no longer schedule specific seed pick dates. Since the White Bear Lake library was just opened for express visits you can pick up your seeds inside the library at the WBL Seed Library table (to the right immediately after you enter through the 2 sets of doors.)
The scheduled seed pickup on April 28th is still happening at the library’s parking lot! For the Wednesday April 28th pick up, you need to email me your order by 1pm on April 28th.
Here are the new directions on how to get seeds:
1. Go to the White Bear Lake Seed Library’s blogsite at: https://wblseedlibrary.blogspot.com/
2. Select your seeds from the seeds lists posted on the right hand side of the blogsite.
3. Email your selection to Pam at: wblseedlibrary@gmail.com. Pam will reply to your email when your seeds are bagged and ready for pickup.
4. Starting May 6th, Pam will make a weekly drop off of seed bags to the White Bear Lake library, 2150 2nd St, White Bear Lake, MN on Thursdays by noon.
Orders placed by Wednesday at 8pm will be available for pick up on Thursday. Your brown paper seed bag will be labelled with your name. The bags will be placed on the seed library table. The seed library table is to the right just after you go through the two sets of doors. If your seed bag is not picked up in 2 weeks it will be returned to the seed library.
*Note: If you do not feel comfortable going inside the White Bear Lake library to pick up your bag of seeds, please let me know when you place your order. I will be happy to meet you at the White Bear Lake library’s parking lot for a contactless seed pick up.
So, maybe you are wondering why I didn’t put all the seed drawers back in the library? There are several reasons.
One, I have been mostly packaging seeds as orders come in. This means the seed drawers only contain a fraction of the seeds available. As we can’t have seed packaging events yet, it would take quite a while for me and other volunteers to package enough seeds to fully stock the drawers.
Two, the seed catalog is woefully out of date as no one has needed it for over a year. I didn’t see a need to constantly update it as new varieties came to the seed library as many of those varieties have been exhausted already.
Three, I believe it would be very difficult to keep the seed drawers, seed packets and catalogs clean during this time when Covid is still a threat.
If you have any questions, please email me.
Pam
Contact info for the Seed Library:
Email: wblseedlibrary@gmail.com
Blog site: WBL Seed Library
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