Become a
Seed Keeper
The Mid-Atlantic's native seed supply depends on one organization. Make sure it survives.
What Seed Keepers Fund
MARSB is the only organization building a genetically verified, chain-of-custody seed supply for native plant restoration across the Mid-Atlantic. From collection to cleaning to long-term banking, MARSB guarantees the genetic integrity and regional provenance that restoration depends on.
Your membership directly supports this core infrastructure: field collection across seven mapped states, professional seed cleaning and quality testing, long-term banking at verified facilities, and the technical assistance that gets the right seed to the right project.
This is the chain of custody — and without it, there is no reliable native seed supply in this region.
Why It Matters Now
Federal funding that supported this work has been cancelled or is at risk. The supply chain is, in the words of federal researchers, "significantly underdeveloped and largely informal." MARSB is building the formal one. The Seed Keeper program is how we keep going.
135K
Acres burned in the Mid-Atlantic in 2024 — up from 53K in 2022
75%
Of land managers surveyed can't procure the native seed they need
311
Species banked by MARSB from 400+ field collections
Be the first.
MARSB has banked over 1800 collections, including 500 in the last two years. The work is proven. Now it needs a permanent funding base. Join as a founding Seed Keeper and put your name on the effort to secure the Mid-Atlantic's native seed supply for good.