Garden through the winter with our Plant Parenthood program
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The glory of this fall will soon give way to winter and we’ll be holing up with our big ideas for next summer — and probably jonesing a bit for the sweet smell of spring earth. Scratch your itching green thumb by joining our Plant Parenthood program. Here’s how it works:
We will provide you with seeds for native pollinator plants.
You use your off-season green thumb to winter sow those seeds, bump them into pots, and otherwise nurture them through the Colorado winter and early spring.
Come May, you return them to us for use in our projects and spring plant sale.
Think of it as a decentralized nursery effort and a way to donate some of your skills to support Friends of Coal Creek’s mission and to boost the amount of native plant material that’s available in our cities and towns. If there is good interest, we can host a couple workshops on winter sowing in plastic bags or bins and how to bump your seedlings from the bag to small pots and eventually larger ones in preparation for use and sale. Winter sowing is easy and rewarding — and we need your help.
Plants are one of our biggest expenses and your effort here extends our impact in the field. Questions? Email Executive Director Casey Lyons at casey@friendsofcoalcreek.org.
