How to Save & Start Native Seeds

🦋 Butterfly Treats 🌱

Grow a butterfly garden from seed — or share them with birds!
🌸 Start seeds in the winter & plant them in spring — or let the birds feast this winter; they’ll scatter the seeds around your neighborhood.

Get the family-friendly planting instructions here.

🦋 Dulces para mariposas 🌱

Cultiva un jardín de mariposas con semillas — ¡o compártelas con las aves!
🌸 Siembra semillas durante el invierno y plántalas en primavera — o deja que las aves se den un festín este invierno; ellas dispersarán las semillas por tu vecindario.

Obtén aquí las instrucciones de siembra para toda la familia.

Family-friendly guide to collecting and starting native seeds

Get the family-friendly guide to saving and sprouting native seeds. The workshop video will be available shortly. This is an easy and inexpensive way to start or expand your own pollinator garden. Includes resources for purchasing seeds if you can’t collect seeds nearby.

Download the pdf in English & en Español

This guide is compiled from information generously provided by the following experts (any mistakes are mine, not theirs’)

Catherine Halpern: How to Start Native Seeds Indoors > Watch the video and read Catherine’s blog

Corn Schmid • Maggie Muzzante / LINPI • Dan Tyska / Tyska Native Plants 

Find Native seeds online

Here are a few sources, if you can’t collect locally:
Living Lands
Prairie Moon Nursery - codes with germination 
Sheffield Seed

More info:
Wild Seed Project
Grow It Build It