From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

When I read the other day that native plant trust, the non-profit plant conservation organization

in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed

to save its region's most imperiled native plants in a seed bank. It was like a silver

lining kind of story. Yes, the plight of natives in the region, like the state of native

species in other regions around the country, is dire. Native plant trust estimates that

a staggering 17% of the region's native plants are on the

brink of extinction, with an additional 5% already lost, they say.

But efforts like the seed bank offer hope, the silver lining I mentioned, and the seed

bank is just one of the organization's seed focused projects that are our subject today,

so more in a moment, but first, these messages.

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