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Saving Native Plant Seeds at Borderlands Restoration Network

Borderlands Restoration Network (BRN) is a nonprofit based in Patagonia, Arizona, near the border with Mexico. Their work focuses on conservation, habitat restoration, and public education. Staff and volunteers collect seeds across the region, taking care not to damage wild populations or collect invasive species. This video takes a look at how they converted a vintage trailer to safely store their seed collection and restore native plants in the borderlands of southern Arizona. BRN's nursery and seed program supports the Sky Islands region, where isolated mountain ranges rise from surrounding desert and grassland. The program began in 2012 to meet the need for locally adapted native plants. Today, they grow more than 100,000 plants each year and manage a seed center with over 2,000 collections. These seeds support erosion control, fire recovery, and dryland revegetation in partnership with the Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and private landowners. BRN collects wild seeds each season to keep them adapted to local conditions and avoids long-term storage by planting seeds back into the landscape within a few years. Learn more at borderlandsrestoration.org This video was created by Justin Risley of Native Seeds/SEARCH. The interview and footage was shot on December 3, 2024. This video is part of a Community Guide to Seed Banking in the Southwest, with support from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S.Department of Agriculture, through the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program (SARE). View the full project here: https://www.nativeseeds.org/pages/see... Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project are those of the creator(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.