- Date
- 2024-04-20
- Kind
- Educational program
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- ecologyeducationcommunitygardening
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island District Library launched its seed library on April 20, 2024, as an Earth Day and National Garden Month program. The announced program included free seeds, an explanation of how the library would work, a native- plants presentation by Shelby Harris, children’s activities, and food. The June Northern Islander reports the launch speaker series continuing, which supports the transition from announcement to an operating program.
Evidence limits
The institutional forum notice establishes the planned program and its details; the newspaper corroborates the launch and subsequent programming but supplies no attendance total or complete account of what occurred that day.
Sources
- Northern Islander, April 2024, "Celebrate National Garden Month! BIDL is now a SEED LIBRARY!"Identifies the Beaver Island District Library, its participation in the One Seed, One State program, and an April 20 kickoff at 2 p.m. with free seeds, programming, food, and a seed-sharing purpose. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
- BIDL announcement invites the public to the April 20, 2 p.m. grand opening and Earth Day celebration, naming a Shelby Harris native-plants presentation, children's activities, food, and a family-friendly format. This is an institutional event announcement, not an attendance or completion report.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 18 · t018083
- Northern Islander, June 2024, Beaver Island District Library news.Reports the seed-library program continuing with a speaker series and identifies Shelby Harris as the kickoff speaker, corroborating that the launch led into ongoing programming. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island District Library seed-library launch and Earth Day celebration, 2024”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-district-library-seed-library-launch-2024/, accessed [date], citing Northern Islander, April 2024, "Celebrate National Garden Month! BIDL is now a SEED LIBRARY!" (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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