Growing a vegetable or pollinator garden is a popular hobby these days, and fall is the right time of year to start. The East Baton Rouge Parish Library is here to help — 10 of the 15 library branches are participating in the Seed Library initiative, a free program committed to offering gardening education and seeds so people can have healthy foods.

The program prioritizes herbs and vegetables that are either native to Louisiana or thrive particularly well in the local area. One of the library's goals is to foster sustainability when it comes to gardening, so the seeds won't be invasive species that would harm or take over a garden.

Allison Gianelloni, the community programming librarian, read about seed libraries popping up in libraries throughout the country and thought it was someth

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