I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THE COLLECTION REFLECTED THE PALATES AND NEEDS OF EVERYBODY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
— Keri Ostby
a revolutionary concept when they first began to appear almost a generation ago. The earliest example I can find is BASIL, the Bay Area Seed Interchange Library founded at the Berkeley (California) Ecology Center back in 2000. The impetus for its founding came when University of California Berkeley closed its campus
