"Planting Seeds of Resilience with Wild Seed Project"
Presentation by Andrea Berry, Executive Director of Wild Seed Project
We are living in a time defined by change. Climatic change - brought on and accelerated by settler colonialism that defines land as a resource, not a relationship - is rapidly undermining our security on our planetary home. Habitat loss, extinction, rising seas, melting ice. We know the story, and we feel its effects. It is imperative that as we experience change we are porous to it, and we are pushed by our awareness to change how we interact with our home environments, both local and global.
The Wild Seed Project is a Maine-based non-profit organization working to inspire communities to make a difference in this time of change by doing the smallest of acts: planting native seeds. We believe that planting native plants, grown from seed, with your community is both the recipe and the process of creating tangible change. In doing this, we collectively repopulate landscapes with the plants that expand wildlife habitat, support biodiversity, and build climate resilience.
Join Andrea Berry of the Wild Seed Project as she talks through the “how-to’s” of conservation through community. There are tangible actions that all of us can take, and it will take all of us to reestablish resilient landscapes in the places we live, work, and play. Through regeneration, we can remember that the human hand does not have to be one of only destruction. We can practice using our hands for care, and planting native seeds is a great way to begin that journey.