Local Native Wildflower Seed

February 2025 Update:

Since 2021, Maggie has been collecting native seed, via a permit, on public lands within Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. She has also collected parent seed and propagules on rural, forested private land, land-locked by Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

She expects the first harvest of sellable generation one seed in 2025.

Maggie collects only within the boundary of Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, in order to preserve the ecoregional value of the sellable seed.

Ecoregional seed are seeds that developed from parent stock that has evolved over time and adapted to the soils, geology, temperature, rainfall, elevation, insects, diseases and pests of a specific region. 

Ecoregional seed establishes easier, are more hardy and have fewer insect and disease problems than other seed. 

In the future, we aim to expand to providing potted native plants that are inoculated with mycorrhizae. Mycorrhizae are fungi that have a symbiotic relationship with plants. Plants grown with mycorrhizae are more hardy because the fungi allow the plants to access water and nutrients that would otherwise be hard to access. In return, the mycorrhizae receive sugars and carbon from the plant that it can't produce on its own.