BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 16, 2022
Maine’s native edible plants have suffered a lot over the years at the hands of humans. Climate change, the introduction of invasive species and outright eradication have turned the edibles that used to thrive on the state’s landscape into rare and endangered commodities. David Spahr is doing what he can to stem the tide for those rare edible plants, and he’s doing it one seed at a time on his Washington farm, where he’s successfully growing native rarities such as beech plums, wild high bush blueberries, black walnuts, American chestnuts and butternuts. And much of that success is thanks to a unique seed storage method.