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🌿🌱 Exciting news! 🌱🌿 The demand for native seeds and plant material is on the rise, thanks to the growing investments in restorative activities. 🌾 Check out the recent article by titled "Everyone Wants to Repair Our Damaged Ecosystems — But Where Are the Seeds?" to learn why it's crucial to strengthen seed supply chains. 🌎💚 Eve Allen, EHN’s Program Director, sheds light on the complex social networks that make up seed supply chains and emphasizes the need for a holistic and network-based approach. 🤝✨
In the Northeastern US, the Northeast Seed Network is already making strides in this direction! 🌱💪 Bringing together private companies, academia, government, non-profit and private organizations, and tribal groups to exchange information and resources and enable collective action to address bottlenecks in all key seed supply chain steps! 🌱🌳
Video: Seed production fields at Pinelands Nursery in NJ , credit Eve Allen
10/26/2022
The Native Plant Trust is hosting a free, two-day fall symposium Need for Seed: A Strategy for the Northeast, on November 2–3. Eve Allen, Director of the Seed and Plant Supply Chain Program at EHN, will be presenting on the 2nd about EHN's collaborative initiative to reinforce and build network connections among government agencies, tribal groups, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, botanic gardens, farmers, private companies, and citizen groups, as a first step in improving the availability of genetically appropriate seed and plant materials to restore a wide range of ecosystems.
http://www.nativeplanttrust.org/events/symposium-need-seed-strategy-northeast/
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