Online: September Member Q&A
Each month, WSP’s resident plant experts join members on Zoom to answer questions and talk all things native plants. Current members will receive a link to the session via email.
Not a member? Join today!
Each month, WSP’s resident plant experts join members on Zoom to answer questions and talk all things native plants. Current members will receive a link to the session via email.
Not a member? Join today!
Explore the ecological and aesthetic advantages of hedges and hedgerows at Wild Ones national webinar, “The Beauty and Benefits of Hedgerows” with Heather McCargo, founder of Wild Seed Project.
Native hedgerows are diverse plantings of woody plants from shrubs to small trees along with herbaceous groundcovers at their base. Learn how these low-maintenance and sustainable plantings of shrubs, trees, and groundcovers can enhance biodiversity, provide critical habitats for wildlife, and contribute to climate resilience. Discover practical tips for designing and implementing hedgerows in various landscapes, from farms to urban settings, and understand their role in supporting pollinators, birds, and soil health.
You will also learn about Heather McCargo and the Wild Seed Project’s latest collaboration with Wild Ones on the new Native Garden Design for Portland, ME.
This webinar is offered in collaboration with Wild Ones, a national native plants organization. Head to the Wild Ones event listing to register.
Mark your calendars for the 2024 Common Ground Fair! We’ll be there all weekend, with presentations in the education tent, info sessions at our booth, and lots of seeds and plants for sale. Come say hi!
In addition to helping to sustain vital pollinators, birds and other wildlife, native plantings offer countless other benefits that are indispensable in the age of climate change. When created and maintained with ecologically attuned landscaping practices, they can minimize flooding and storm water runoff, shade and cool cities, survive droughts, and facilitate carbon storage more effectively than the landscapes dominated by turf and mulch that blanket so many of our communities.
Join Manager of Applied Ecology Tyler Refsland to learn about the actions you can take to make your corner of the world more biodiverse and resilient to the effects of climate change.
Why do we plant seeds in the winter? Do different types of seed need to be planted differently? What do you do after they’re sown? Come learn the answers to these and more, in this hands-on demonstration led by our Seed Center Director Emily Baisden.
Join us at Black Brook Preserve to learn about the work of the Ash Protection Collaboration Across Wabanakik (APCAW) and how to collect Ash seeds to be a part of APCAW’s impact in Maine.
APCAW is a group of Indigenous and non-indigenous researchers, Tribal members, and forest caretakers working together to bring more awareness of the cultural and ecological significance of Ash trees and activate communities to help in the time-sensitive effort to conserve them.
This workshop, featuring Tyler Everett from APCAW and offered in collaboration with the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust will train participants in identifying and collecting ash seeds according to the protocol developed by the APCAW team.
Come learn and practice with us! Register at the PRLT website.
Each month, WSP’s resident plant experts join members on Zoom to answer questions and talk all things native plants. Current members will receive a link to the session via email.
Not a member? Join today!
Come join us to learn about the diverse plants that grow here in Maine and their unique seed collection and seed sowing processes!
In this workshop, Wild Seed Project staff will facilitate a hands-on exploration of the many steps of growing native plants from seed, and establishing your own diverse, pollinator-friendly garden using seed-grown plants. Weather permitting, the class will begin outside with a walk, identifying different plants in the area and demonstrating ecologically-responsible seed collecting practices for those plants. For the second part of the workshop, we will practice fall seed sowing and talk through the best practices for keeping your seeds outside for the winter.
Each participant will sow two pots of seeds; one to take home with them, and one to stay at the Burbank Branch to add to their new Community Seed Garden! Be on the lookout for future workshops at the library, as we watch and interact with the life cycles of the seeds we sow.
No registration required.
We are so excited to be partnering with The Maine Coast Heritage Trust for our 2024 Four Season Walk series! In this Brunswick-based Four Season Walk, participants will learn how to identify many of the native plants growing around the preserve. Join Emily Baisden, Wild Seed Project’s seed program director and resident entomologist to explore the flora and fauna of this area. This will be the third of four walks, spaced throughout the year in each unique season, where we will all engage in observing and asking questions of our surroundings, and identifying the varied plants, shrubs, trees, ferns, and wildlife along the trail.
The goal of these walks is to foster relationships with place through relationships with plants, and encourage further stewardship of our community spaces. Come walk and learn about Woodward Point Preserve in all its season with Wild Seed Project! We will meet at the preserve’s entrance, in the parking lot on Woodward Point Rd.
Offered in partnership with Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Registration info coming soon.
Wild Seed Project is partnering with the Presumpscot Regional Land Trust to offer a series of Four Seasons Walks at Black Brook Preserve in Windham. These walks showcase native plants and how they change throughout the year. Join Nell Houde, Wild Seed Project’s education lead, as we explore the preserve. Participants will learn how to identify and form relationships with many of the native plants that grow in the places we live, work and play. The walk will move at a more leisurely pace, covering a little over one mile of the trail during the walk. Thisis the second walk of a four-part series.
Registration details coming soon.
Each month, WSP’s resident plant experts join members on Zoom to answer questions and talk all things native plants. Current members will receive a link to the session via email.
Not a member? Join today!
