After the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture cracked down on a
community seed library, hundreds of seed libraries in the U.S. are
suddenly wondering if they are breaking the law. According to PA
regulators, in order to give out member-donated seeds, the Simpson Seed
Library in Cumberland County would have to put around 400 seeds of each
variety through prohibitively impractical seed testing procedures in
order to determine quality, rate of germinability, and so on. The result
of the PA crackdown is that the library can no longer give out seeds
other than those which are commercially packaged.
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