Community engagement in rural libraries receives little focus and is an overlooked area of research. In this article, we report exemplars of agriculture-based community engagement in rural and Southern and Central Appalachian region of the United States. An online survey of rural library professionals demonstrates the positive impact of agriculture-based engagement activities on the overall community-engagement initiatives in this region. This article synthesizes eight distinct agriculture-based initiatives with many subprojects, lists an inventory of stakeholders involved in agriculture-based community-engagement initiatives, and highlights the challenges faced by the rural libraries. Three successful examples, namely, seed library, community gardens, and farmers’ market initiatives, are presented with details to help other libraries adopt these successful community-engagement initiatives. The results show that rural libraries are very creative with their limited resources and they hit many areas of impact in the community through their community-engagement activities.

农村图书馆的社区参与很少受到关注，并且是一个被忽视的研究领域。在本文中，我们报告了美国农村和南部和中部阿巴拉契亚地区基于农业的社区参与的范例。一项针对农村图书馆专业人员的在线调查表明，以农业为基础的参与活动对该地区的整体社区参与计划产生了积极影响。本文综合了八个不同的农业倡议和许多子项目，列出了参与农业社区参与倡议的利益相关者清单，并强调了农村图书馆面临的挑战。三个成功的例子，即种子图书馆、社区花园和农贸市场倡议，提供详细信息以帮助其他图书馆采用这些成功的社区参与计划。结果表明，农村图书馆在资源有限的情况下非常有创意，他们通过社区参与活动在社区中影响了许多领域。