Call to Action: Help us celebrate and support the Ecotype Project!

The mayor of New Haven Justin Elicker, Doreen Abubakar, founder of Urbanscapes. and Dennis Riordan of Menunkatuck Audubon Society cutting the ribbon of the newly built Urbanscapes greenhouse.

A new source for seeds and plants native to the Ecoregion 59, the Northeastern Coastal Zone, produced on local farms from seed wild-collected by botanists across the ecoregion.

• Order seeds for your garden or for larger restoration projects from Eco59.com.

• Please ask your local nursery to stock Ecotype Project plants now available from Planter’s Choice wholesale supplier.

Pollinator enthusiasts, regenerative gardeners, and conservationists can now find a source of locally grown, native, wildflower seeds: a much-awaited contribution to our northeastern ecosystem. It is a good season for it: early winter holidays are the perfect time for sowing native wildflowers.

Eco59: a farmer-led seed collective has launched its first season of sales. Catalyzed by the work of the Pollinator Pathways and CT NOFA’s Ecotype Project, a group of farmers have been working together, learning to grow a new crop: seeds of regionally appropriate wildflowers, called ecotypes, for pollinator habitat restoration. The new seed compan