This Lil Lab is part of a community garden in Nogales (AZ). Inside the Lil Lab, there are small books with gardening tips from local community members (in Spanish), seeds, and plant clippings. Attached to the Lil Lab are tools such as trowels and a watering can.  

The Mānoa Valley LilLab is a mini free-sharing lab connected to the Nest Makerspace in Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. This LilLab, located on a well-traveled path near Manoa’s University of Hawai’i, provides free access to Pono STEAM kits, kokedama moss balls, mini woven lauhala cubes and weaving kits, foldscopes, place-based dyes, and windfall airplants gathered from upper Mānoa Valley to create a shared space to encourage collaboration and mālama (care) for the environment, as well as community workshops to drive innovation specific to Hawai’i.

The Biotech Without Borders Lil Lab serves as a open-space at the Greenpoint Public Library for hands-on learning through DNA extractions, bioglass/resin, and slime molds kits so that students of all ages can engage with scientific concepts in an interactive, engaging, and easily approachable way. 

The Wonon Project Lil Labs serve as small community labs to empower indigenous communities through science and technology, where both knowledge and resources are openly distributed in the cultural heritage of the Maya K’iche’ and Mam people. The labs are equipped with supplies for menstrual health and personal hygiene, books, and manuals promoting sustainable agriculture and using medicinal plants based on ancestral practices, in addition to microscopes and modern scientific tools to create a hands-on environment that inspires culturally-driven curiosity.

The Cellsius Lil Lab seeks to provide open access to tools, mentorship, and community lab space in San Francisco, CA. To increase the number of opportunities for people to enter the bioeconomy, this Lil Lab offers educational skill-development workshops, low-cost shared benchtops, access to shared equipment, and the place for early stage biotech projects to incubate.

The Little Free Failure of Capitalism (LFFC) serves as a distribution point for necessities for the unhoused, impoverished, and those suffering from opioid addition. LFFC provides soap, socks, wound care materials, naloxone (Narcan), zines, arts, native and food plant seeds, a free public telephone, and on-demand stories.

The Glyxon Biolabs Lil Lab provides an open network of communication in a Java cross platform system that can be incorporated in any operating system. Organizations working on forest management can measure CO2 and soil respiration remotely using open source mobile and portable devices, serving as a way for them to gain familiarity and mentorship with this technology.

The Cabbagetown Lil Lab seeks to provide bioart supplies and soil and water quality testing kits in the Cabbagetown community of Atlanta, Georgia. With a vibrant community of artists and musicians in Cabbagetown, this Lil Lab has quickly garnered the interest of locals to achieve its mission of inspiring community-driven science. 

The Waccamaw Siouan STEM Studio Water Testing Lil Lab seeks to provide PFAS water testing kits to members of the Waccamaw Siouan tribal community in North Carolina. In light of the harmful effects of PFAS contamination, this Lil Lab allows for at-home well water testing and a broader discussion on action plans given the community results.

tomorrow.Lab is a futuristic lab focused on biohacking and the human connection to other species through engineering biological systems beyond natural limitations. tomorrow.Lab seeks to provide biohacking educational programming through Zines and form a biology-driven community of people from different backgrounds that can inspire new, creative ideas. 

The Lil Hill Lab is a library for plant clipping sharing located in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, near the top of a long, steep hill. The plant library gives community members a low-cost way to bring greenery into their homes and share their planting successes with neighbors. This Lil Lab also provides an engaging hill-themed optical illusion, hill-loving native plants on its roof, and a breathing place for folks as they reach the end of the long hill.

My Lil Lab is located in Mumbai, India. It is a condensed homemade view of frugal biology experiments.