From Earth To Sky:

The Pollinators Perspective on Native Plants

Join us for another magnificent pairing of local experts, this time via ZOOM to discuss how critical native plants and pollinators are our food supply, reversing climate change, and improving biodiversity.

The Ecotype Project for pollinator health is an initiative of CT NOFA, that is restoring native habitat to safeguard our food system.  The work exists at the intersection of farms, gardens, land trusts, and public lands: aiming to increase the number of native plants growing in our region. 

To do this, we are growing seed crops of Connecticut’s native pollinator plants, wild collected from our open-spaces, and bringing them to our nursery growers and homeowners so that we can produce the local Ecotype plants to restore native pollinator habitat.

Speakers: CT Northeast Organic Farming Association (CT NOFA) Executive Director and local farmer Dina Brewster will share with us the impact our true native plants and pollinators have on the health of our local food system and the local ecosystems in our yards.

We are also delighted to have local seed huntress Sefra Alexandra with a Masters from Cornell in agroecological education, share with us the groundbreaking Ecotype Project and how this initiative has created the first generation of locally grown native plants from wild-collected seed in our region.

Our native plants, shrubs, and trees, paired with our native pollinators, create a winning combination that cleans the air, stores carbon, provides nutrients for living creatures, and are the keys to saving our earth…one yard at a time.

REGISTER for the Zoom webinar HERE !

Also, YOU can be a part of this movement by purchasing these first generation native plants at the Aspetuck online Plant Sale May 22- June 1. For Plant Sale click here