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Sefra Alexandra and the Ecotype Project

Sefra Alexandra and the Ecotype Project

FromGrowing Greener


Sefra Alexandra and the Ecotype Project

FromGrowing Greener

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Dec 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How to introduce Sefra Alexandra, “the Seed Huntress”?  She’s an agroecological educator with a masters degree from Cornell University and she’s worked as an ethnobotanist all around the world, including in her home town of Southport, Connecticut.  Sefra’s a “BOATanist” who plants seed-grown natives along riparian corridors by canoe, and she’s a member of The Explorers Club.  Currently Sefra is also the coordinator of the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s program to restore pollinator habitat, the EcoType Project.  For this project she’s supervising and assisting in the sustainable collection of wild type, locally adapted seed, and facilitating their cultivation so that these plants’ seeds can be harvested, processed, and delivered to local nurseries to be grown on and returned to the wild or gardens.  A Seed Huntress, it appears, is a person of many skills.
Released:
Dec 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.