Adopt-A-Mater

This year the Clark County Public Library staff and friends will attempt to make AppalSeeds, our annual regional Heirloom Tomatoes workshop, complete self-sustaining.

"Marge! Have you heard? We're going to be ADOPTED!!!"

Every year the cost of quality heirloom seed has increased, and in the last three years, the heirloom seeds we like to use are no longer being carried by reliable companies in bulk. In fact, the number of seed-savers out there seems to be dwindling again and varieties seem to be dropping in general after a peak.

So this year we've launched Adopt-A-Mater, whereby interested library staff and associates are allotted an heirloom tomato to take care of in order to produce seeds for the programs in 2013. Most of the varieties are unusual, many are endangered, and yes! you can still eat the tomatoes.