Seeds are absolutely beautiful.

They're fascinatingly different.

And when you look at them underneath a microscope, they all take on a huge new personality of their own.

My name is Robby Henes, and I'm a part of Southwest Seed.

We are a native grass and wildflower company.

This is an example of some of the different native grass seeds.

This is blue grama.

This is the Colorado State grass.

A big part of our business is reclamation seed mixes and reclamation is an important part of efforts to regenerate the land after it has been degraded in some way.

It might be a fire.

It might be construction work.

It might be oil and gas exploration or drilling.

And it's really important to understand that whatever we see going on aboveground, degradation has happened below the ground.

The soils have been changed in many ways.

It's really about soil health, and healthy soil is much more productive.

It can store water better.

So in the ideal world, our seed mixes are going towards helping rebuild the soil structure and the soil health, as well as the plant species above ground, which then feeds animals and pollinators and our sense of beauty and our sense of everything being right in our world.