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Four images of the flower, seed head, and seeds of a native Eastern Red Columbine plant

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Seed-Saving Smarts Workshop

How to Harvest & Save Native Plant Seeds
2025-11-01 10:00:00 2025-11-01 12:00:00 America/New_York Seed-Saving Smarts Workshop Learn the tricks of the trade for collecting, cleaning, and storing native plant seeds for your home garden or to share! Leonardtown Library - Makerspace

Saturday, November 01
10:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-11-01 10:00:00 2025-11-01 12:00:00 America/New_York Seed-Saving Smarts Workshop Learn the tricks of the trade for collecting, cleaning, and storing native plant seeds for your home garden or to share! Leonardtown Library - Makerspace

Leonardtown Library

Makerspace

Learn the tricks of the trade for collecting, cleaning, and storing native plant seeds for your home garden or to share!

Harvesting your own seeds saves you money and gives you more variety in your garden. Master Gardener and Master Naturalist Molly Moore of Southern Maryland Audubon will teach you the difference between shakers, beaks, coneheads, and more, and will guide you in cleaning and packaging seeds. Some seeds will be used to restock our SEEDS catalog for spring distribution and you will be able to take some seeds home with you as well. We welcome beginners as well as experienced seed collectors.

After the presentation, we will step outside to the library’s Front Yard Garden to practice your new skills! In the event of inclement weather, samples of native plants will be available for practice indoors. 

Register to receive a reminder email; walk-ins welcome.

This workshop may qualify for continuing education hours for Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists and other University of Maryland Extension programs

AGE GROUP: | Adult |

EVENT TYPE: | Gardening & Environment |

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