The Catskills Native Seed and Plant Alliance comes together to celebrate and enhance the crucial role each of us can play in fortifying healthy ecosystems.

The lead team from Catskill Mountainkeeper is a regional champion of healthy ecosystems. This project exists at the intersection of their work with farmers, advocacy, climate action, and protecting pollinators.

MARSB’s mission is to conserve and wisely manage the Mid-Atlantic Region’s wild seed resources, through scientific sampling, ethical collection, banking, and curation, and to encourage and actively contribute to the development of the Native Plant Material supply chain throughout the region.

The Gardens has joined the Northeast Seed Network to identify and collect wild native seeds in Maine and making them available to land stewards.

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In the long term, their role will focus on sourcing, collecting, and storing seeds from the wild. These seeds will then be made available to partnering land stewards. Additionally, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will serve as the physical location and repository for all seed collection and associated herbarium voucher specimens of the Northern Appalachian-Atlantic Maritime Hub – the northernmost hub — of the Network. 

Local 59 Plant Network's mission is to catalyze and increase the quantity and quality of ecotypic seeds and plants growing in our region as a mechanism for ecosystem restoration in Westchester and Fairfield  Counties and beyond.

The Restoration Accelerator™ program provides seed-processing services and climate-controlled storage space for native plant growers who need to clean and store large quantities of seed. Based at Nasami Farm nursery in western Massachusetts, our facilities include a seed-processing building and a spacious storage unit containing a cold-dry room and a long-term storage freezer.

ReSeeding Rhose Island is an ambitious, multi-year initiative builds on work started in 2010 by botanist Hope Leeson on the Rhody Native Initiative of the Rhode Island Natural History Survey. We have also drawn heavily from the model of The Ecotype Project for Pollinator Health, set up in 2019 by The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut (CTNOFA) — now the Ecotype Project.

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The Northeast Seed Collective is offering 10 species of ReSeeding RI Seed and more to come!