2025 Small Farm Canada Seed Guide is Coming Soon!
The 2025 SFC seed guide features over 140 seed growers and dealers, with contact information and descriptions of their seed offering. The seed guide also includes valuable information on seed saving, seed types, seedbanks and accessing seed through libraries and associations. One special access point for tree seed is the National Tree Seed Centre in Atlantic Canada.
About the National Tree Seed Centre
The NTSC was established in 1967 with the focus of obtaining, storing and providing tree and shrub seed of known origin for research. Since then, the mandate of the centre has grown to include the conservation of genetic resources under threat from invasive pests, pathogens and climate change.
Since 2004, the NTSC has supported tree conservation strategies to respond to urgent forest health threats across multiple jurisdictions. Working in collaboration with local experts, the NTSC continues to build representative collections for future restoration of butternut (Juglans cinerea) and five species of ash (Fraxinus spp.).
NTSC is also working to:
- Conserve eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) in Eastern Canada
- Conserve limber pine (Pinus flexilis) and whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) in Western Canada
- Develop new protocols for storing challenging species such as oak (Quercus spp.), and cucumber tree (Magnolia acuminata)
The National Tree Seed Centre has over 13,000 unique seed collections from over 200 tree and shrub species – the most diverse collection of its kind in Canada. The centre is located at the Canadian Forest Service’s Atlantic Forestry Centre in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Source: Natural Resources Canada
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