Why plant native seeds in your backyard? This B.C. ethnobotanist explains

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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