This chapter explores the idea of the archive through an ecological understanding of the seedbank. We focus on the American conservationist David Milarch’s Champion Tree Project and the Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library. We recognize these as two projects that bring together the ecological and the archival. Where Milarch clones saplings from the biggest and oldest trees, Paterson invites authors to submit their unread manuscripts to a locked archive in the forest where they will stay for 100 years. We view these projects while considering three different examples of the ecological seedbank. We take a look at soil seedbanks, the Global Seed Vault, and community seedbank practices in a number of global South countries, understanding these as “archives of the people, by the people, for the people”.