Chapters in Michigan

Collecting Native Plant Seeds: What you need to know!

Collecting native plant seeds is a great way to increase native plants in your yard and garden. This Seed Collecting Foray will inform us on the ethical ways to collect native plant seeds; how to identify native vs non-native plants & seeds; and how to keep them viable until you plant them.
 

Collect today, then plant them in our Winter Seed Sowing event in January!

Be on the lookout for our very popular Winter Seed Sowing class in January 2025! Sowing native plant seeds in the winter is the best way to grow native plant for the spring. We will show you how to sow them in "mini home made greenhouses", or sow them directly outside in the snow.
 

What you need to bring:

Dress for the weather! Wear long pants & long sleeves, and closed toed shoes. Bring large manilla envelopes (purchase at a budget store) or paper sandwich bags (at least 10 each), and permanent markers for labeling. Bring your water bottle too!

Rain Date?

We will reschedule if it has rained too much right before or during the seed collecting. If they are too wet they will mildew. We will email everyone who registers, and post on the NCEC Facebook Events page and through NCEC E-news, if we need to cancel on November 16 & reschedule.

Join us for a fun evening to connect with your fellow Wild Ones and to meet newcomers! We will be celebrating our accomplishments in 2024, our 17th year as a chapter. The River City 2025 officers and board members will be introduced. Member Barbara Zvirzdinis will demonstrate Winter Sowing of native seeds in milk jugs. Wild Ones will be selling native plant books, garden signs and related merchandise before and after the presentation. Cider and donuts will be served.

Attendees are encouraged to bring native seeds from their garden to share if you have them. If you are new to native plants and don't have seeds to share, no worries, you can still take home some seeds.

Click the READ MORE button below for seed instructions.

Keweenaw Wild One Cassandra Reed-VanDam will present “Monarchs, Milkweeds, and Native Plants: Oh My!” at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the Calumet Public Library. Then Cassandra will join WOK president Marcia Goodrich in leading a free seed ball workshop. All materials will be provided.

We are thrilled to announce that, thanks to the incredible growth of North Oakland Wild Ones, we will be hosting our very first Annual Meeting! We invite you to join us on November 20th at 6 pm at Johnson Nature Center for an evening of food, networking, and a presentation showcasing our 2024 achievements, the impact we've made, and our vision for 2025. We encourage our members to come ready to share their ideas, tell us what they enjoyed this year, and offer suggestions for what they'd like to see next year. We will hold a vote for the Board of Directors slate of candidates and invite members to participate in forming new committees.

Mike Weis and a panel of KAWO members will host a Q&A session on native plants and native landscaping.