Native Seeds With Tim Johnson - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 7, 2024

October 04, 2024 00:29:22
Native Seeds With Tim Johnson - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 7, 2024
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Native Seeds With Tim Johnson - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 7, 2024

Oct 04 2024 | 00:29:22

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Show Notes

When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed bank, it was like a silver-lining kind of story.  Yes, the plight of natives in the region – like the state of native species in other regions around the country – is dire; Native Plant Trust estimates that “a staggering 17 percent of the region’s native plants are on the brink of extinction, with an additional 5 percent already lost.”... Read More ›

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