The PeaPod, Peabody’s Free Community Seed Library, Returns for its 8th growing season This March!

Since 2019, Peabody gardeners have planted over 9,000 free packets of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds! 

Sprouting later this March, at all 3 PIL locations, the 2026 PeaPod will offer a large selection of vegetable, herb, and flower seeds to help you start your summer garden, while supplies last.

Browse the available seed types on display in old card catalogs at the Main Library, South Branch, and West Branch. To help seed packets last as long as possible and reach the largest number of gardeners, we ask that everyone limit their selections to 5 packets per visit, and only 1 variety of a certain plant (i.e. one variety/type of tomato, one variety/type of sunflower).

“If you have a garden and a library,

you have everything you need.” -Cicero