The seed-library shelf is built. Reclaimed cedar, cut and joined this week at the bench — it'll hold envelopes through a Portland winter and outlive the three of us who built it. Next Saturday, July 11, 10am at the garden (SE 33rd & Yamhill): we weatherproof it, mount it at the gate, and plant out the salsa bed — tomatillos, chiles, cilantro for the August canning afternoon. Bring gloves and a water bottle; tools and coffee on us. New folks especially welcome — there's a job for every pair of hands and no experience needed. Pay-what-you-can starts available, nobody turned away. A seed library is just a promise written in cedar: the varieties that feed this block stay on this block, free, for whoever shows up next spring. Come help us hang the promise. Wendell Berry had it right — eating is an agricultural act. So is building the shelf.
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