“Cultivating Community Through Seed Saving”
Speaker: Emily Baisden

In this program, Emily explores how saving seed is an opportunity to build community in the natural world and between people. We'll first consider the importance of saving seeds for plant diversity and resilience, and then the methods for seed saving in the garden and in the wild. And finally, we'll reflect on our experience of engaging the community to implement a seed saving program.

Wild Seed Project equips community members with the resources they need to collectively restore native plants that expand wildlife habitat, support biodiversity, and build climate resilience.

Speaker Bio:  Emily Baisden is the Seed Stewardship Director for the Wild Seed Project. She previously served as Entomologist and Educator at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. She has an extensive background in native horticulture and environmental education and focuses largely on using native plants to support food webs and biodiversity. She holds a BS in Environmental Science from the University of New England and an MS in Entomology from the University of Delaware. She is an avid birder and has a lifelong goal of being able to identify all the flora and fauna in Maine. She lives in Brunswick, where she spends most of her time adventuring with her partner and their dog and establishing wildlife habitat in her yard.

This Zoom program is free to all HPS/MAG Members. $15 for Non-members. Registration is required. This event will be recorded and will be available for registrants to watch for just 2 weeks following the lecture.

Registration will open November 15^th.  The deadline to register is January 25^th.

Click here if you would like to become a member of HPS/MAG before registering for this event.

Please make sure you have Zoom installed on your computer. Plan to join 5 minutes before the start time. The talk will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Questions can be submitted via chat box and will be read to the speaker by the HPS/MAG moderator. Please note that all participants will be muted for the duration of the event.

Important Info regarding registration: Please make sure you hit the "submit" button after registering online. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, then the registration process was not completed.

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