Lizzie Hunt, RIWPS Trustee and a member of the ReSeeding RI Steering Committee was recently featured in an article in EcoRI. Learn about her work to increase the supply of ecotypic plants in the plant supply chain and how she came to collecting and growing native seeds.
The Northeast Seed Collective is proudly offers Rhode Island Pride, a bundle of 10 species of ReSeeding RI seeds. These are first generation seed from wild plant populations in RI. ReSeeding RI, an initiative of Rhode Island Wild Plant Society follows ethical and sustainable seed collecting and growing practices.
Winter sowing is based on the seed’s normal lifecycle. All our native plant seeds can be sown now and many even require an extended period of cold moist exposure, “cold stratification”, to germinate. It is a fun and rewarding experience!
In the fourth of her series of drawings and playful verse spotlighting the species currently in the ReSeeding RI pipeline, Andrea Morrison focuses on 3 species of goldenrod
In the third of her series of drawings and playful verse spotlighting the species currently in the ReSeeding RI pipeline, Andrea Morrison focuses on wavy-laved aster.
In the second of her series of drawings and playful verse spotlighting the species currently in the ReSeeding RI pipeline, Andrea Morrison focuses on swamp milkweed.
Andrea Morrison, RIWPS volunteer, is inspired by her passion for native plants and her love of drawing and playful verse. Pale-spiked lobelia is one of the species now being grown in a foundation plots of our initiative, ReSeeding RI.
Mary Lhowe’s article Sowing native plants is crucial to the health of the environment, pollinators, food systems stresses that we need to take of our native plants so that they can take care of us.
On February 25, 2025 Dave Vissoe, Vice President of RIWPS and URI Master Gardener, delivered an online presentation about ReSeeding RI, describing its journey to date. Watch the presentation!
ReSeeding RI Review by Shannon Kingsley first appeared in RIWPS’ publication Wildflora, RI, Winter 2023
Join the URI Bee Lab, Rhode Island Wild Plant Society, and The Glass Station for an engaging look at our local bees and the vital role they play in pollinating native plants and crops. We’ll also share insights from recent work supported by the Glass Bee Fellowship*. Research Fellows at the Bee Lab Rachel Fiona and Fiona Dell’Antonio, and Professor of Entomology and head of URI’s Bee Lab will share their research findings.
Representatives from the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society will questions about pollinators, native plant species, and ways you can support local biodiversity. RIWPS will also offer ecotypic seeds from some of the species in their own ReSeeding RI initiative along with seeds from other ecotypic 59 species. Plant these seeds to preserve the genetics of our local native plant populations and increase biodiversity across RI and the region.
*The Glass Bee Fellowship is a summer research fellowship funded by sales of artist Jennifer Nauck’s glass bees, and made available annually through the Coastal and Environmental Fellows Program for an undergraduate at the University of Rhode Island.
Come with your questions!
Ocean State Stories and Dawn Spears