Project 150

Project Summary

Help residents of a Toronto community feed themselves and others through establishing a seed-sharing ecosystem. A Seed Library is a depository of seeds held in trust for a community of gardeners. Community members visit the library and borrow seeds to plant in their gardens. At the end of the season, they collect seeds from the plants they have grown and return the same amount of seeds as they borrowed at the beginning of the growing season. Because seeds are living things, they must be renewed each year or unique strains of plants may become extinct.

The research team for this project will focus on generating an outreach program focused on educating members of a multicultural Toronto community about seed libraries while imparting knowledge about methods of saving seeds that can be donated back to the seed library. The interdisciplinary research team for this project might be composed of individuals with an interest or specialization in botany, urban studies, environmental studies, education, social work, equity, marketing, digital design and digital media.

Sustainable Development Goals

Organizational Profile

Grown In Woburn is led by a group of students in the Cross Campus Capstone Classroom (C4) Summer course at York University, in collaboration with IBM.