Seed Circle - Seed Library Console with Germination Records and a Return Loop

Dashboard, seed lots, lot detail with germination history, the germination test queue and returns intake with the return check. Every one of the 26 demo lots opens its own lot page.

Completing a test below the threshold (60% for carrots) moves the lot to quarantine and lists its packets for pull-back. Release stays disabled until a passing test later than the quarantine date, and lots are due a retest every 12 months.

Each with its pollination type, isolation distance from 3 m for beans to 500 m for carrots and kale, alternatives such as bagging or hand pollination, minimum plants for seed saving and its own germination test method.

18 heritage and open-pollinated varieties, 25 branches, 18 germination tests across every stage, 16 member returns and 5 upcoming swaps, workshops and cleaning sessions.

Germination Nobody Could See

Test results sat in one spreadsheet that branches never saw, so packets went out from lots whose seed had aged past a useful germination rate. Members found out only when nothing came up, and whole drawers had to be discarded.

Returns With No History

When seed came back, there was no link to the lot it was borrowed from, how many plants it was saved from or whether a squash grower had kept varieties apart. Insect and wind pollinated crops cross easily, so unchecked returns could quietly change a variety.

Labels Under Unsettled Seed Law

Most US state seed laws require a label with variety, lot, germination percentage and test date, and whether Oregon's applies to a free library still needs confirmation with the Oregon Department of Agriculture. The network chose to label every packet as if it did.

Rare Varieties and Protected Seed

Two rare family varieties were down to a single jar with no one growing them out. At the same time the network must not accept PVP-protected, patented or F1 hybrid seed, or anything on Oregon's noxious weed list.