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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Danielle,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure if this helps or not but the Library Farm of the Northern Onondaga Public Library has a “Library Farm Rules & Responsibilities” document that I find interesting:
<a href="https://www.nopl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-LibraryFarm-Rules-and-Responsibilities.pdf">
https://www.nopl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-LibraryFarm-Rules-and-Responsibilities.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Be well,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rebekkah<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#888888">Rebekkah Smith Aldrich
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#888888">Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Library System<br>
845.471.6060 x239</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#888888">Chair, Council Committee on Sustainability, American Library Association</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#888888">Co-Founder, <a href="https://sustainablelibrariesinitiative.org/" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Sustainable Libraries Initiative</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#888888">Advisory Board Member,
<a href="http://www.ala.org/tools/future" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">Center for the Future of Libraries</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#888888">Author: <a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/laspap">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Libraries and Sustainability: Programs and Practices for Community Impact</span></a> |
<a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/resilience-library-futures-series-book-2" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Resilience</span></a> | <a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/sustainable-thinking-ensuring-your-library%E2%80%99s-future-uncertain-world" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563C1">Sustainable Thinking: Ensuring Your Library's Future in Uncertain Times</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> SLI-Public <sli-public-bounces@lists.suffolknet.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Danielle Minard via SLI-Public<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 1, 2022 12:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> sli-public@lists.suffolknet.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SLI-public] Donations for library community gardens<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Comsewogue Public Library is in the process of planning a community garden. We advertised it as "coming soon" in our summer newsletter and a patron expressed interest in donating plants for it.
To those of you with gardens, do you have a policy or procedure in place for accepting donations of plants or seeds? Any other feedback that could be helpful as we plan?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Comsewogue Public Library | 631-928-1212<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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