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Grow Native! Webinar: Collecting Native Seeds and Winter Sowing

August 28, 2024 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT

Shining bluestar seedlings

Calling all native plant nerds! Are you ready to dive into the magical world of collecting seeds and growing your own native plants? If so, this webinar is for you. Presenter Julie Farstad will present how you can collect native plant seeds, store them until the winter, and grow them in containers over the cold months. Experience the magic of peering down into your homemade mini greenhouses and seeing tiny seedlings sprouting up this coming April! Julie will share her experiences and experiments with winter sowing native plants in this fun, informative webinar.

The webinar, to be held via Zoom, will include a presentation and a live question and answer session. Please register below at the link. The webinar will be recorded with a link sent to all registrants, as well as posted to our YouTube channel.

Cost: Free

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Julie Farstad is an artist and Professor of Painting at the Kansas City Art Institute who explores native plants, and the act of cultivation in the context of ecological crisis in mixed media studio artwork and community based painting projects. She creates public-facing artwork in her Flowers For Marlborough Project that confronts neighborhood blight by sharing the beauty and function of native plants through large-scale painting, free workshops, and giving away free native plant seedlings to the Marlborough community. Her oil paintings on panel, including her new Wildflower Revolution series that explores the intricate forms of the native plants of the Midwest, are represented by Zg Gallery in Chicago.

Julie was born and raised in Elmira, New York. She earned her BFA in Painting at the University of Notre Dame and her MFA in Painting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives and works in Kansas City, Missouri with her husband and two sons.

Photo of shining blue star seedlings (Amsonia illustris) by Scott Woodbury.

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August 28, 2024
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
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