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Love Little Free Libraries? These People Didnt Stop at Books
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Yes! Magazine


Yes! Magazine, September 27, 2017
Posted: October 9th, 2017
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/just-transition/love-littl...

From seed banks to free food pantries, the little library movement is taking off in neighborhoods across the country. Audrey Barbakoff ... wanted a place for people to share and donate vegetable, flower, and herb seeds. Barbakoff, who works as a librarian on Bainbridge Island, Washington, thought that the public library was the perfect place to house a seed library. In 2014, the group and the library staff teamed up to build a seed shed right behind the Bainbridge branch. Residents bring their seeds to the library and the staff organize, label, and store them in the shed where people are free to take what they need. In March, Holly Dyck ... decided to host a clothes swap on campus. Her idea caught on with more than 50 students who gathered in a student lounge to swap clothes that had rarely or never been worn. Darla Bradish ... heard about the Little Free Library movement and imagined a similar concept, but with food. I see the need for little free food pantries in my community, Bradish says. Its hard for some people ... to get to the local food bank, so I thought why not place little food pantries in the neighborhoods. Bradish got her program, Kitsap Neighborhood Little Free Pantries, approved by her countys public health district and set up the first two little pantries. The success of her project led to the local corrections department offering to build her more pantry boxes. One guy got his paycheck, but couldnt cash it until the next day, she says. So, he came to one of the pantries to find out what he was going to eat for dinner.

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