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Each Seed Keeper outing begins with a song.  As volunteers gather along a shoreline of the Elizabeth River, ready to harvest seeds from native wetland plants, group leader Luísa Black Ellis recites a few verses that request permission from the land.  “When we collect seeds, we ask for permission before taking them, and then we do it with a song,” said Black Ellis, director of resilience and community engagement at the Elizabeth River Project (ERP).