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In June, officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture alerted the Joseph T. Simpson Public Library in Mechanicsburg that their seed library was in violation of the Pennsylvania Seed Act of 2004. According to officials, the library would have to follow the prohibitively expensive procedures of large-scale commercial seed companies or only offer commercial seed. The first option is impractical and the second option would gut the exchange of its primary purpose to serve home gardeners who want to save and exchange their own seed… Despite what may be an incorrect interpretation of the law, other states are now considering adopting Pennsylvanias seed library protocol. This could kill a fast growing U.S. seed library movement.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 22:15:07 +0000

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