As the seasons shift to spring and plants start to bloom, one ethnobotanist is encouraging gardeners to plant seeds that naturally grow in their part of the province.
Bren Beckwith, co-founder of KinSeed Ecologies in Nelson, B.C. — an offshoot of the Kootenay Native Plant Society — says native plants “are the foundation of local ecosystems.”
“The plants themselves are part of this community,” said Beckwith.
According to online database E-Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia, because native plants have been part of their environment for so long, they are interconnected with fungal networks, soil health, and wildlife in a way that farmed species and humans are not.
Planting native plants leads to
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