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The Southern Ontario Seed Strategy

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