Master Watershed Steward Watershed-Friendly Native Plant Kit Sale

About the Online Sale

Support local ecosystems and protect water resources with Watershed-Friendly Plant Kits, designed to help you add native plants to your property for habitat creation, stormwater management, pollution reduction, and other essential ecological benefits. Offered in partnership with the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward program and Nurture Nature Center, these kits align with the Watershed-Friendly Certification focus areas and make it easier than ever to enhance your landscape’s environmental value. Each kit includes carefully selected plant plugs grown by Kind Earth Growers using locally collected, open-pollinated seeds and a 50 percent peat-free growing medium. Smaller than typical nursery plants, these plugs are easy to transport and plant within existing vegetation and are grown with healthy root systems to establish quickly this fall—ensuring robust growth in the seasons to come.

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The order pickup locations can be found on the website.

Reducing stormwater runoff, reducing water pollution, conserving water, and supporting wildlife and pollinators are critical elements of healthy watershed-friendly properties and the focus areas of the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Watershed-Friendly certification, a collaboration with Nurture Nature Center. Native plants are woven throughout the certification criteria because of all the benefits that native plant gardens can provide.

Plant plugs will be between less than an inch to several inches tall, and the roots will be between 1-3 inches in plastic wells. Please see the resourcesfor plug care and planting instructions. Any plants not picked up by the date/time listed for your registration location will be donated.

Watershed-Friendly Kit Selection Details

• Bountiful Kitsinclude 5 species with 5 individual plants of each species. A total of 25 plants.
• Container Kits are a smaller kit option that includes 5 species with one (1) plant of each species. A total of 5 plants.

Kits are composed of plant plugs from carefully selected species grown by Kind Earth Growers using locally collected open-source pollinated seeds and 50% peat-free growing media. Plant plugs are smaller than what is typically found in nurseries, allowing for easier transportation and planting within existing vegetation. The plugs have healthy root systems which will establish this fall so that your plants can flourish next growing season.

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All items must be preordered.

Plants will not be available for purchase at pickup sites.