In 2025, a group of public and academic libraries in western MA (including Hampshire's Harold F. Johnson Library) formed an initiative to encourage our communities to grow the same plant, from the same harvest of seeds, at the same time! The 2025 selection is the Provider Bean. This is a delicious snap green bean which is a bush variety - which means it doesn't need a supporting trellis to remain upright as it grows.
Read about the Common Seed Project and the Provider Bean by visiting the Library Resource Guide.
