The OISE Seed Library is now stocked and ready for your garden! In partnership with Toronto Seed Library, we have a variety of organic seeds for plants including lettuce, eggplants, tomatoes, cucumbers, and beets. Come into OISE Library and browse our seed collection located in the card catalog on the ground floor. If you find something you like you can take it home, the seeds are free. Visit the Toronto Seed Library’s How-To Guide for more detailed information about using the seed library.
You can use the seeds to grow a school or community garden! OISE has a number of helpful books that will show you how to start your garden project like “Setting up and running a school garden”. This book includes details about plant needs, optimal conditions for a garden site, and how to prepare and eat the food you grow! You can also check out “Edible schoolyards: A universal idea” and “How to grow a school garden”.
Turn you garden activity into a lesson and teach students about nutrition and healthy living with “Food for Life” and “Nutrition and Health”. You can also add in a lesson about the impact of food on the environment with “Reducing you foodprint farming, cooking, and eating for a healthy planet” or a lesson on living organisms with “A seed grows: My first look at a plant’s life cycle”.