Waking the Spring Beauties, Boost Your Success and Local Biodiversity with Melissa Spearing

Learn some tips and tricks for growing spring blooming native plants from seed in this webinar with professional seed biologist Melissa Spearing.

Melissa's bio:
Melissa Spearing was a professional seed biologist helping steward over 15,000 conservation seedlots at the National Tree Seed Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada while working towards a Master of Forest Science degree at the University of New Brunswick. Her background spanned nursery production and scaling up Grow-Me-Insteads at her parent’s farm in Southern Ontario, advancing Species at Risk recovery programs across Canada, delivering tree seed collection training for the Forest Gene Conservation Association of Ontario, training at the Millennium Seed Bank in England, and Niagara Parks School of Horticulture diploma. Her passion was helping growers and all native species thrive in advance of a rapidly changing climate.