Have you been wanting to add a few native pollinator plants to your home landscape? Including native plants in your garden is important for providing food and nectar to the pollinators, birds, and mammals that call our area home. Winter sowing native seeds is an easy and low-cost way to add native plants to your yard! Sowing the seeds in winter ensures they will get the cold treatment most native seeds require to start growing in the spring. 

At this workshop, we’ll have seeds native to our area to give you starter plants in the spring that will attract important pollinators to your yard from spring to fall. Here are some of the seeds we’ll have on hand: eastern red columbine, spotted bee balm, swamp milkweed, cut-leaf coneflower, and aromatic aster. If you already have some of these growing in your yard, you can substitute other native seeds from The River House Little Seed Library. 

Bring one to two 1- or half-gallon milk jugs (must be somewhat translucent — not solid color). We’ll supply the soil mix, seeds, and other supplies needed. 

Free but donations are welcome to help cover the cost of supplies. Space is limited -- sign up early!

Location: River House Otters Den

Instructor:Mia Musolino

Cost: Pay what you can

Registration is required for supplies -

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