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Seed library

Under the motto "Borrowing seeds - harvesting diversity", the seed library offers all members of Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts the opportunity to grow different types of vegetables themselves free of charge.

"Borrowing seeds - harvesting diversity" is a project of the Association for the Conservation of Crop Diversity (VEN)

Would you like to grow your own vegetables on your balcony or in your garden and contribute to the protection of biodiversity at the same time? With the seed library at the Max-Ophüls-Platz location, we can help you do just that! It's very simple: you choose the seeds you want, plant them, harvest - hopefully - delicious vegetables and, if possible, bring us back one (or more) bags of newly harvested seeds a few months later. This creates a cycle from which as many students and employees of Fachhochschule Dortmund as possible can benefit.

The seed library is supported by the "Querbeet" project of the City of Dortmund's Office for Urban Renewal. We are very grateful for this!

For the start, we obtained the seeds via the project "Lending seeds - harvesting diversity" of the Verein zur Erhaltung der Nutzpflanzenvielfalt e. V. (VEN).

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