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 our Executive Director Andrea Berry 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.

Free and open to the public.  Copies of the publication “Planting for Climate Resilience” will be available for sale at the event.

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!

Join us at Turkey Hill Farm for early morning birding with our staff ornithologist, Emily Baisden. We will meet in the parking lot at 8:00 AM (bring your coffee!) and walk around the field, shrub habitat, and forest at Turkey Hill, looking out for bluebirds, warblers, and any other feathered friends we may encounter. Bring binoculars if you have them! This is a great chance to meet other birders and nature-lovers, ask questions to an ecologist and bird expert, and maybe add some new species to your life list.

Register to secure your spot.

Rain date is Monday, May 20, same time.

The West End Neighborhood Association has launched a campaign to reforest the city of Portland, highlighting the importance of urban trees to climate adaptation, wildlife habitat, human health and more.  Our Manager of Applied Ecology, Tyler Refsland, will present on the critical role of urban canopy cover in building climate resilience.  Come learn, and connect with organizers at WENA for help selecting and planting a native tree in your urban yard!

This talk is free and open to the public.  More info at the WENA ReForest the City webpage.

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 first 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.  Register for the event if you’d like to join us!

What is a culture keeper? And how does maintaining and honoring cultural traditions support climate resilience? In this talk from Diandra Esparza, Executive Director at Intersectional Environmentalist, she shares about the ways her heritage and art influence her climate justice activism – and how we can each harness our own cultural backgrounds to take action for people and the planet.

Diandra Marizet Esparza (she/her) is an organizational development strategist, published writer, poet and co-founder of Intersectional Environmentalist, where she currently serves as the Executive Director. Diandra’s work seeks to help environmentalists everywhere recognize culture as an expression of relationship to land. Her work advocates for the accessibility of diverse stories for rising generations. Diandra is a contributing writer in the academically adopted book The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet.

You can learn more about Diandra and her story here.

This event is hosted on Zoom; be sure to register to reserve your spot.

Save the date!

Our annual plant sale is September 7th and 8th this year, at our Native Seed Center.

More details to come.  We hope to see you there!