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
Ocean State Stories and Dawn Spears