[MPWG] Calling all seed savers

[Elizabeth Ann Blaker]

Hello Native Plant lovers!

I'm teaching a workshop for kids at the Museum of Northern Arizona this summer and would love to have them plant a pollinator garden - there is a good spot for this right on the MNA campus. But I need help, and I'm hoping you might help me.

What I need are seeds from native wildflowers, any old flower pots, and potting soil people might have. I'd like to start the seeds now, so that by summer, the kids will have some good-sized plants to transplant. I think this would be much more fun for them than planting a seed and seeing nothing happen during the week-long workshop.

If anyone is interested in actually helping with planting, that would be great! I'm not a plant expert. There is a green house at MNA that I'm sure we could get permission to use.

My name is Elizabeth Blaker -- please send email to Elizabeth.Blaker at nau.edu if you are interested in helping with this project.

Thanks,
liz


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From: MPWG [mpwg-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] on behalf of Peter Bowler [pabowler at uci.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 5:53 PM
To: Patricia De Angelis; native-plants; apwg; mpwg
Subject: [MPWG] I'd appreciate your circulating this job opportunity - it is a very good one! Many thanks, Peter Bowler


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