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Update to Fox Island Seed Harvest BUSHWACKERS - You know we cannot do this without you! All of you did such a great job! The kids loved it! There were 28 volunteers present at our first annual seed collection. YOU collected approximately 29 pounds of quality seed in the 4 hour allotment! …(the guy with the glasses & pony tale) would win most collected seed! THANK YOU! Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo Keeper 1, David Messman was a strong competitor along with Greg Konger – HARDEST WORKERS EVER! We could not have done this without Executive Director of Fox Island County Park - Ron Zartman! All of our volunteers found primarily Big Blue Stem, Indian Grass, Canada Wild Rye and a little Switchgrass and Prairie Dropseed. The grasses that are taller than your head were the ones we were seeking out and the ones that Save Maumee spends all of your hard earned money upon! Some of the seeds will be grown in our greenhouse (growing them into plant plugs)…and the rest we will be planting on Save Maumee Earth Day, Sunday April 18, 2010:
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Seed Harvest @ Fox Island - INVITATIONSATURDAY October 24, 20101 pm - 4pmSeed Gathering at Fox Island 1pm – 4pm
BRING CLIPPERS/sheers/scissors etc. for cutting! NO RIPPING OUT ROOTS! This nature preserve is opening up its “home” to Save Maumee Volunteers. We will teach you to identify plants that are native to our riverbanks and have you pluck the seeds for plantings on our riverbanks….Remember, only pick the ones we tell you to and LEAVE THE ROOT BASE! For example, we don’t want that pretty purple flower (Purple Loose-Strife, Japanese Honeysuckle, Ribbon Grass, ect.) to invade our area! A very informal, yet informational and helpful event! Currently Save Maumee is paying $530 for one acre's worth of seed! Help out your rivers...pick a few pounds! Save Maumee has an approved DNR planting list for Indiana that we are very strict at enforcing. None of us want invasive plants to take root, and take over, but our rivers need foliage! Remember, MOST of the forested corridor in Indiana have been removed....which is one of our water's natural filtration device. Up to 80% of a streams water quality is inherited at the headwaters! We will plant collected / dried seed on Save Maumee’s Annual Earth Day. Some of the seed will be started in Top Notch Tree Service's Greenhouse. It will be the same greenhouse you put up in July 2009 with approximatly 85% salvage and recycled materials! Meet us ¼ mile EAST of Fox Island BEFORE the entrance on Yohne Rd….look for the Save Maumee Banner…Plucking will be on the north side of Yohne Rd. in the large prairie, Parking on the SOUTH side of Yohne Rd. ~ You wont be able to miss us! It will be free because we will not be entering "Fox Island" but we will be able to use their facilities! Click on picture for larger image!We will meet here: ALL EVENTS ARE RAIN OR SHINEWhat kind of plants will we be plucking? ~ Whatever that is harvestible (NOT GREEN) on this list: Don't worry....we will show you what is what! IMPORTANT TO KEEP SEEDS SEPARATED! WE WILL HELP YOU LABEL!
THE FOLLOWING IS EXACTLY
WHAT WE GATHERED in 2009 Seed able to be identified and gathered at our first Fox
Island Seed Harvest; Harvested on 9/26/09 and what will be planted on Earth Day
2010 in addition to seed purchased... *Big Blue Stern & Canada Wild Rye & Indian Grass – 16 lbs (TOTAL of these 3) *New York Iron Weed/Tall Iron Weed – 5 lbs *Bergamot/Monarda – 2 lbs *Gray Headed Coneflower – 2 lbs *Milkweed (most of the Milkweed was too green to harvest, but some were) 75 pods *Yarrow – 12 ounces *Mullein – 12 ounces *Switchgrass – 6 ounces *Common Evening Primrose – 6 ounces *Prairie Dropseed – 6 ounces
The following in blue is a price list of WORTH of seed collected from Heartland Restoration/Earth Source Inc.
Big Bluestem: $12/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 10lbs = $120 Canada Wild Rye: $14/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 5lbs = $70 Indian Grass: $8/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 2lbs = $16 Tall Iron Weed: $225/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 5lbs = $1,125 Wild Bergamot: $352/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 2lbs = $704 Gray Headed Coneflower $105/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 2lbs = $210 Common Milkweed: $7/oz, $108/LB Save Maumee collected approx. 15 ounces = $105 Switchgrass: $2/oz Save Maumee collected approx. 6 ounces = $12 Prairie Dropseed: $18/oz Save Maumee collected approx 6 ounces = $108
So how much is all of this worth in dollars saved by plucking it ourselves? Approximately: $2,470 WORTH OF SEED!!! THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!
Not harvestable but present: Gray Goldenrod SOME Milkweed was harvested but most was green ~ Monarch Butterflies need this! Why?
Please email Abigail Frost or call (260) 417-2500 if you have any questions or comments.
Please join Save Maumee on Earth Day
to celebrate the cleansing of the riverbanks and and rally the community’s
awareness about our 3 River’s condition in Fort Wayne. Educational information
will be available. |
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