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As a community service project, the\u00a0VegHeads<\/span>, a Lehigh Acres 4-H youth club, have started up the first Seed Library in Lee County. This VegHeads ages range from five to fourteen years old. Their seed library has gotten off to a great start with donations from Tomato Growers, Bobby\u2019s Fruit Trees, 4-H Trail Blazers, the Harty, Heidenreich and Welles families, Sakata Seed, Lehigh Acres Edible Gardening Exchange, and the Lee County Master Gardeners.<\/p>\nThe\u00a0VegHeads Seed Library<\/span>\u00a0is striving to offer seeds that work well in our local climate, are \u201copen-pollinated\u201d, and to only offer seed when it should be planted. In addition to offering seed to the general public, it is hoped that this service will allow low-income families access to seeds and knowledge to grow their own food.<\/p>\n Gardeners have been saving and sharing seeds for thousands of years. By saving seeds, gardeners keep a plant line, which could be centuries old, from disappearing. Both commercial growers and fellow gardeners are encouraged to provide \u201copen pollinated\u201d seeds to the\u00a0VegHeads Seed Library<\/span>. While there is a bit of effort to save seed and keep it pure to its lineage, it is far from difficult for most vegetables.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some seed provided by the\u00a0VegHeads Seed Library<\/span>\u00a0are \u201chybrids\u201d which is a deliberate pollination of one plant to another to create seed that makes a more desirable plant. We do not recommend saving seeds from hybrids since planting their seed will have unknown results.<\/p>\n As part of their community service project, the\u00a0VegHeads<\/span>\u00a0are developing a free seed saving class to offer to patrons early next year. This class, taught by VegHeads youth, will be open to the public even if they are not participating in the\u00a0VegHeads Seed Library<\/span>.<\/p>\n To download a seed request form or to make a donation on eventbrite, go to\u00a0vegheadseeds.blogspot.com<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0look for the links on the right-hand side of the page. For more information about the\u00a0VegHeads Seed Library<\/span>, contact their 4-H leader Karen Harty at\u00a0610.530.8883<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a community service project, the\u00a0VegHeads, a Lehigh Acres 4-H youth club, have started up the first Seed Library in Lee County. This VegHeads ages range from five to fourteen… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}