Native Seed Winter Sowing Workshop

Join the Aquidneck Island Land Trust, Rhode Island Wild Plant Society (RIWPS), and Middletown Public Library in this hands-on workshop and learn how to turn your yard or community space into an oasis for wildlife!

Are you or someone you know interested in learning how to grow your own native plants from seed? It's a fun and easy way to make your yard more beautiful, ecologically productive and surprisingly, January is the best time to get started! This workshop will provide you with an overview on how to obtain native seeds, sow them and then care for seedlings until fall planting in the garden. Please bring a one gallon clear/translucent milk jug and learn how to repurpose it into an outdoor native seed sowing container. Soil and native seeds from the ReSeeding Rhode Island program will be provided. Participants will be able to keep their newly sowed native seeds to care for and eventually plant at home. The workshop will be led by Instructor Sue Theriault, who is a propagator with RIWPS and leads their ReSeeding Rhode Island program, an initiative to make our home-grown native seeds more accessible and plentiful.