Ecotypes, Ecoregions, and Restoration Agriculture

Ecotypes, Ecoregions, and Restoration Agriculture

Where: APCC’s Koppel Center
482 Main St (Rte 6A), Dennis 02638

In this presentation, our speaker, Dina Brewster, co-founder of the Ecotype Project will introduce a framework for developing both a supply and demand chain for ecotypic native plants. The talk will include a step-by-step guide to building seed production and native plant production into a working farm’s calendar year. In addition to a discussion of seed growing and plant propagation, Dina will introduce her work as a seed grower in the Northeast Seed Collective – a farmer-led seed company that operates out of her farm.

SPEAKER: Dina Brewster founded The Hickories in Ridgefield, CT, an organic fruit, vegetable, cut flower, pastured livestock and restoration seed farm. For twenty years, she has overseen the development of new products and new acreage as the farm business has grown. She also served as the executive director of CT NOFA. While there, she co-founded the Ecotype Project, a program that resulted in the creation of the Northeast Seed Collective, a restoration seed business Dina now runs out of her farm. The Northeast Seed Collective’s goal is to increase the quality and quantity of native plants growing in our region.