Española Healing Foods Seed Library

A seed library is a free community space where people can come to receive and share seeds — and grow health and wellbeing together. The Española Healing Foods Seed Library honors local seeds and farming traditions!

The Seed Library is housed in the Española Public Library (313 N Paseo De Oñate) and opened in March 2020. The Library is a project of the Española Public Library, the City of Española, Tewa Women United’s Española Healing Foods Oasis, and Seed Library Youth Leaders.

HOURS: The Seed Library is open during the Public Library’s regular hours: Monday – Friday, 8:30 – 11:30 am and 1 – 4:30 pm

SEED BLESSING & ANCESTRAL AGREEMENT 

These seeds are shared freely in the hope that through this exchange, we will support health for our communities, continue cultural traditions and farming lifeways, and help protect Earth’s incredible diversity of seeds. 

In receiving these seeds, I commit to honoring Indigenous Nations, Pueblo communities, and other land-based Peoples who have protected and passed on these seeds, and their stories, for countless generations. 

I commit to acting with care, respect and reverence as a guardian of these seed teachers – and promise that I will never sell, commodify, or exploit them in any way, as seeds are a gift from Earth that give life. 

I commit to planting, tending and harvesting these seeds in the best way that I can, and to returning seeds back to the library in the future when I am able. 

I recognize that in choosing to care for these seeds, I take on a responsibility to use my voice to speak for the health of seeds, waters, and land – and to protect against any attempts to steal, degrade, commodify, or harm this precious heritage.