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SUMMARY:2025 SE New England Native Seed Exchange:  Sharing\, Learning and Connecting
DESCRIPTION:RIWPS’ initiative ReSeeding RI will be participating in this event!\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSE New England Native Seed Exchange – \nNovember 9\, 2025 \n12:00 – 3:00 pm \n Tillinghast Place\, Barrington RI \n231 Nayatt Rd\, Barrington\, RI 02806 \n  \nThe SE New England Native Seed Exchange is for anyone interested in native plants\, including folks who are new to the native plant world\, gardeners\, students\, conservationists\, and farmers! Whatever your level of interest or knowledge\, we’d love you to come.  \nRhode Island School of Design students will be sharing seed from their Test Plots. The Rhode Island Wild Plant Society will discuss their ReSeeding RI program to increase number of local ecotypic 59 native plant seeds into the supply chain and to lead a planting demo. Farmers will be sharing local seed from their foundation plots\, and everyone is welcome to bring seed from their own gardens. \nLet’s celebrate all our efforts to preserve our native plants and our habitats. \nEnjoy live bluegrass & folk music! \n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSee all details & RSVP!
URL:https://riwps.org/event/2025-se-new-england-native-seed-exchange/
LOCATION:Tillinghast Place\, 230 Nyatt Rd\, Barrington\, RHode Island\, 02806
CATEGORIES:General Event,Programs,ReSeeding Rhode Island
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SUMMARY:Shannon Kingsley\, botantist for ReSeeding RI will speak about this initiative at Transforming the Landscape Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Rhode Island Audubon’s spring symposium Transforming The Landscape focuses on how to become part of a sustainable community and support our native species by creating beautiful pollinator habitat at home. The keynote speaker Dr. Doug Tallamy\, Professor and Chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware is well known for his lauded books on landscaping for wildlife.  The seven other speakers include Shannon Kingsley\, botanist for RIWPS’ ReSeeding RI initiate\, who will talk about how this initiative aims to increase the availability of seeds and plants from locally sourced wild native “ecotypic” plant populations. The other speakers are Dr. Steven Alm\, Professor of Entomology\, and the URI Bee Lab; Lee Ann Freitas\, Director\, Roger Williams Park Botanical Center; Sally Johnson\, Ecoastal Design; Donna Merrill\, Founder and President of Pollinator Pathway; Jen West\, Coastal Training Program Coordinator\, Narragansett Bay Research Reserve and Phoenix Wheeler\, Audubon Director of Advocacy.  The symposium will take place on April 20\, 2024\, from 9 am to 4 pm\, at Rhode Island College in Providence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe symposium offers the opportunity to speak with local garden designers\, community organizers\, and Rhode Island’s scientific community to discover how your space can grow into a pollinator paradise. Learn about the latest bee research out of the University of Rhode Island\, the detrimental effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on wildlife and our waterways\, and local efforts to establish a living seed bank for native plants. Leave with knowledge on where to find native plants\, ways to communicate with your community about this vital issue\, and how to get your garden on the map by joining Audubon’s Pollinator Alliance. RIWPS along with other organizations will be represented at the event. \nMore details and registration – provided by Audubon Society of Rhode Island \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/transforming-the-landscape-audubon-native-plants-and-pollinators-symposium/
LOCATION:Providence
CATEGORIES:ReSeeding Rhode Island
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SUMMARY:ReSeeding RI: Replenishing Native Plants -  a URI Master Gardener Program
DESCRIPTION:The program below is from the URI Master Gardener Program. It is free and open to the public. \nJoin Dave Vissoe\, University of Rhode Island Master Gardener 2017 Hall of Fame and RI Wild Plant Society Vice President\, as he takes you on a visual journey of ReSeeding RI from its inception and vision to actualizing the steps of the plan. Visuals will be interspersed with video clips from those involved in the project to show you the depth\, breadth and diversity of some of the participants. It will conclude with how Master Gardeners might be involved in 2024. Resources and references will be included. \nReseeding RI is a project of the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society amplifying RI and Ecoregion 59 Native Seeds and Plants. \nRegistration: Zoom 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/reseeding-ri-replenishing-native-plants-a-uri-master-gardener-program/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ReSeeding Rhode Island
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SUMMARY:ReSeeding RI - Class offered by the Native Plant Trust
DESCRIPTION:The program below\, on our Reseeding RI initiative\, comes from the class offerings of the  Native Plant Trust.  The registration link takes you to their website. \nIn 2022\, Rhode Island Plant Society (RIWPS) began ReSeeding Rhode Island\, an initiative to increase the availability of ecotypic seed and plants within the state. In this session\, you will learn from ReSeeding Rhode Island’s seed collector\, Shannon Kingsley\, about ecotypes and ecoregions\, proper protocols for collection of wild seeds\, and the types of species collected and grown by ReSeeding RI. Shannon will also delve into her experiences collecting wild seeds\, the initiative’s partnerships with its wild seedbed growers\, and the developing educational aspects of the project. \nPlease note: We do not make video or audio recordings of classes or programs available after the fact\, because we believe education is interactive\, with instructors and students building a community and culture of learning. Some programs may be recorded strictly for instructor-training purposes. Please visit this page to review this and other FAQs about our policies. \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nDate/time details\nThursday\, January 25\, 2024\, 5 PM – 6 PM\n\n\nLocation\nZoom / Online\n\n\nProgram code\nBOTW202\n\n\nFee\n$15 (Members) / $18 (Nonmembers)\n\n\nInstructor\nShannon Kingsley\n\n\nCertificate\nElective: The sic or Advanced\, Botany\n\n\n\nRegister \n 
URL:https://riwps.org/event/reseeding-ri-class-offered-by-native-plant-trust/
LOCATION:RHode Island
CATEGORIES:ReSeeding Rhode Island
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