Name: Wildflower Winter Sowing and Tray Planting Workshop
Start: 2025-02-15T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-16T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Wildflower Winter Sowing and Tray Planting Workshop

Plant wildflower seeds now for outdoor or indoor growing. Many species and extra supplies available for all.
About this Event

Join us for a hands-on planting workshop and get a head start on Spring gardening and habitat projects! We will guide you through Winter Sowing (a super simple growing process that lets nature provide the care all winter long) and indoor tray planting (for those aiming for Memorial Day and have excellent indoor light sources). Whether you're a beginner or an experienced gardener, this workshop will help you kick start your projects and guide you through the whole process, teaching you tips and tricks for handling seeds and caring for your springtime plants. We aim for an inclusive, relaxed, community atmosphere.

Please gather and bring transparent milk-jug style containers, if you have them, to help guarantee we have plenty for everyone! We happily support you bringing your own native or vegetable seeds. If you have seedling planting trays, bring those as well. We are all about reuse.

This is a donation-supported, volunteer driven event. Please donate (on site) to help us continue our offerings all year long! We want everyone to have nature, no matter their personal situation, so we suggest a donation for each planted jug between complimentary (free) and $10.

There will be an orientation talk at the start of each block. Come early if you don't want to miss that walkthrough. For others, arrive any time and stay with us as long as you like.

Volunteers should not register ... instead add your name and availability here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GR8awHa4n3WEcYZ3L7u0Ufoedd21Qc4WUSmi_6Co0jg/edit?usp=sharing

Based on when you plan to arrive, register for only one time slot per person!

Morning Arrival between 10 AM & Noon
Afternoon Arrival between Noon & 2 PM

We encourage participants to take part in our April/May Up-Potting events, where we will share our bounty and take the next step of growth in an enjoyable community sharing way. That Up-Potting event also helps us deal with all the extra plants that some of us will have and gives each of us access to species that we did not grow.