Wild Ones has developed a guide to get you started with your native plant/seed garden project including a checklist of tasks, a list of helpful resources on native plant selection and garden design as well as worksheets for developing your youth garden, your materials list and a sample project timeline. This guide is meant to […]
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July’s Native Plant News highlights efforts including orchid conservation in New Hampshire and Maine, Georgia’s Plant Rescue program, an Iowan college’s prairie restoration, and California’s ancient oak tree preservation. Read more about Hawaii’s feral pigs promoting non-native plants, Washington’s battle against Eurasian watermilfoil, and Colorado’s Space Force Base aiding Monarch butterfly migration.
As our movement of native planters cultivating healthier landscapes continues to grow and spread, Wild Ones remains invigorated by our work to promote native landscapes through education, advocacy and collaborative action. It’s through this educational mission that the Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education (SFE) Grant program was developed in 1997. The SFE program’s purpose is […]
Discover how a South Carolina School transformed its surroundings and connected students with nature through a Wild Ones’ Seeds for Education Grant.
Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ltd (“WO”), a not-for-profit organization organized under the laws of Wisconsin, encourages the solicitation and acceptance of gifts to or for the benefit of WO for purposes that will help WO to further and fulfill its mission. The mission of WO is to promote environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity […]
“We have turned 54% of the lower 48 states into a matrix of cities, suburbs, roads, airports, power and pipelines, shopping centers, golf courses, infrastructure, and isolated habitat fragments, with 41% more of the U.S. into various forms of agriculture. That’s right: we humans have taken 95% of the natural world and made it unnatural,” […]
As part of the Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education grant program, a project report is due by all grant recipients by February 28th in the year following award disbursement. This report covers the 2024 grant cycle. It includes applications received in Fall 2022, with funds distributed in February 2024. If you still have not submitted […]
