Completed 2022

Design by Could Be Architecture for Jen de los Reyes

Fabrication by Building Brown Workshop

Photography by Brian Griffin

The Free Little Seed Library is a friendly neighborhood character perched in a restored prairie along the sidewalk, welcoming neighbors to pick up vegetable seeds from its juicy pink interior. This neighborhood agricultural amenity is part of broader mutual-aid garden at Garbage Hill Farm, "a small scale backyard artist-run urban farm on a post-industrial corridor serving Chicago’s McKinley Park neighborhood. The seed library's signage and graphics translate into three languages that reflect the primary demographics of the neighborhood—English, Mandarin, and Spanish.