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The 25^th season of the Great Falls Forum continues on Thursday, April 20th, featuring Andrea Berry, Executive Director of Wild Seed Project, with a talk entitled “Planting Seeds of Resilience with Wild Seed Project.” This free, public program will take place from 12 noon to 1 PM in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library and will also be streamed live via Zoom and the Lewiston Public Library Facebook page.

The Wild Seed Project is a Maine-based non-profit organization working to inspire communities to make a difference in this time of change by doing the smallest of acts: planting native seeds. The organization believes that planting native plants, grown from seed, within communities is both the recipe and the process of creating tangible change. In doing this, communities collectively repopulate landscapes with the plants that expand wildlife habitat, support biodiversity, and build climate resilience.

In her Great Falls Forum talk, Andrea Berry of the Wild Seed Project will discuss the “how-to’s” of conservation through community, including tangible actions that everyone can take in order to reestablish resilient landscapes in the places we live, work, and play.

Andrea Berry joined the Wild Seed Project in 2021 following six years as Director of Community Engagement at Maine Initiatives. She serves on the Board of Directors at Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative and Resources for Organizing & Social Change, and recently was elected to serve on the Select Board for the town of North Yarmouth, where she is leading community-driven efforts around land conservation and environmental stewardship.

Admission is free to all Forum events and reservations are only required if attending via Zoom. The Zoom link will be posted to the Library website and Facebook prior to the event. The onsite program is a bring-your-own, brown-bag lunch event. For more information, please contact the Lewiston Public Library at 513-3135 or LPLReference@lewistonmaine.gov.

The Great Falls Forum speaker series is co-sponsored by Bates College, Lewiston Public Library, and the Sun Journal. The Lewiston Public Library is located downtown at 200 Lisbon Street at the corner of Pine Street.