Everything you need to know about Cork's seed libraries
A collection of seeds stored in old, wooden library catalogue filing drawers at Hollyhill Seed Library, Cork city’s first seed library. Picture: Larry Cummins
While libraries have traditionally focused on planting seeds in the mind, Cork City Library is now offering a more literal take on seed planting with news that it will now host the third in what is fast growing into a flourishing community network of seed libraries around Cork.
The Cork City Seed Library, in the main city library, on the Grand Parade was conceived by Aisling Kett, a founder of Cork Soil Savers, an urban composting project based at Kyrl’s Quay in the city centre. The seed library itself is housed in an old recovered document cabinet since treated to a loving makeover by library worker and artist, Diana Sipova.
