How the seed library works
No fees and no library card. Borrow seeds, check out tools, and join a workshop.
How borrowing works
Borrow adapted seeds
Come by the community room during pickup hours and take home packets of heritage beans, chiles, melons, and greens.
Free planting chart included
Plant and grow with support
Use our clinics, olla irrigation guides, and free tool library. Ask volunteer master gardeners questions in Spanish or English.
Weekend clinics
Save and return a share
Let your healthiest plants go to seed at the end of the season. Clean and return a few envelopes to restock the library for next year.
Keeps genetic resilience local
Current neighborhood programs
Thu 4–7pm & Sat 9am–12pm
Heritage Seed Lending
Borrow up to 10 packets per season of drought-tolerant tepary beans, I'itoi onions, Tohono O'odham melons, and native amaranth adapted to Sonoran heat.
Bi-weekly Saturdays
Desert Soil & Irrigation Clinics
Hands-on workshops covering compost tea, olla pot clay irrigation, shade cloth placement, and monsoon rain catchment.
Open during library hours
Community Tool Share Library
Broadforks, wheelbarrows, drip tubing punchers, and soil aerators available for free checkout with any local ID or neighbor voucher.
Tuesdays & Thursdays after school
Bilingual Youth Garden Plots
Mentorship plots where South Tucson students learn seed saving, pollination biology, and healthy culinary traditions in Spanish and English.