{"id":3438,"date":"2014-12-23T08:04:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2014-12-23T08:04:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T13:04:50","slug":"duluth-city-council-unanimously-passes-seed-sharing-resolution-shareable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution – Shareable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duluth City Council Unanimously Passes Seed Sharing Resolution – Shareable<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Seed activists can put a mark\u00a0in the win column. Recently, the city council in Duluth, Minnesota\u00a0passed a resolution supporting seed saving and sharing\u00a0in the city (see video below of the council meeting). They also requested changes in state seed law to allow seed sharing without cost or germination testing.<\/p>\n

The resolution is in response to a crackdown that took place earlier this year when representatives of the Duluth Public Library\u2019s seed sharing project were informed by a Minnesota Department of Agriculture seed inspector that they needed to comply with state seed laws, which include rigorous and cost-prohibitive testing of seeds. This is a\u00a0growing issue<\/a>\u00a0for seed libraries and the seed movement. The\u00a0resolution<\/a>\u00a0in Duluth, which is co-sponsored by council members Joel Sipress, Emily Larson and Sharla Gardner, and unanimously passed by the city council, models a common-sense solution, the key points of which are:<\/p>\n