The Southern Ontario Seed Strategy (SOSS) will help prioritize actions to grow more native plants, grow them better, and support the goals of reconciliation and restoration.
It focuses on a coordinated approach to the stewardship and conservation of native plant materials and provides a framework to build an ethical restoration economy through recommendations that address barriers, gaps, and inequities in the sector. Indigenous leadership, knowledge, and community engagement is a priority in this strategy.
The SOSS recommendations aim to increase restoration capacity in southern Ontario and support local, regional, provincial, and national goals for biodiversity and climate resilience.
Goals
- Goal 1: Expand ethical and safe space within the native plant sector.
- Goal 2: Increase supply and support demand for reliably available genetically appropriate native seed.
- Goal 3: Develop tools that allow coordinated, timely, informed action for seed conservation and stewardship in southern Ontario.
- Goal 4: Develop strategies for widespread use and adoption of native plants within consumer, industry, and policy sectors.
- Goal 5: Identify Two-Eyed Seeing knowledge needs to inform and support a native seed supply chain for restoration.
In Partnership With
- Carolinian Canada
- Kayanase: Restoring Mother Earth
- OPRA: Ontario Plant Restoration Aliance
- Ontario Native Plant Growers
- WWF
- Swallowtail Native Plants
- Forest Gene Conservation Association
- David Suzuki Foundation: One Nature.
- Forests Ontario
- Canadian Wildlife Federation