Our founders
Lauren and Lavender Muscatine are the
co-founders of the Napa County Seed Library.
Lauren Buffaloe–Muscatine and her daughter Lavender learned about seed libraries when daily life changed remarkably due to the pandemic in 2020. They aligned inspiration and action to establish the Napa County Seed Library as a nonprofit organization and announced their motivations via their YouTube channel. The Napa Valley Register covered their origin story in September 2020 and in a follow-up series of articles about seed saving and sharing, regenerative home gardening, and Napa County’s First Annual Seed Swap.
Since 2020, local residents, garden centers, seed companies, and small farmers have generously donated over 1,800 seed packets to establish initial seed inventories. They now have a network of seed library annexes located in key areas of Napa County. Each seed library annex serves a hyperlocal community, so seed selections vary by location. In addition, they host community seed exchanges at local events.
