SATURDAY October 20, 2018
9am-noon
Harvest location: Meet at the big red barn
Little Rivers Wetland Project’s, Eagle Marsh
ADDRESS: 6300 Engle Road Fort Wayne, IN 46804
RAIN OR SHINE

9am-noon October 20, 2018 RAIN OR SHINE 6300 Engle Rd. Fort Wayne, IN 46804
We will plant the collected seed on local riverbanks to reduce erosion and protect the diversity and strength of native plant species.
Look for us around the prairie! LOOK AT THE MAP ABOVE
- A light snack and water refill for your reusable water bottles will be provided for volunteers
- BRING CLIPPERS/sheers/scissors etc. for cutting! NO RIPPING OUT ROOTS!
- Wear long pants and durable shoes or boots (NO SANDALS) and appropriate seasonal clothing
- Bring all friends, family and children!
This nature preserve once again opened-up its “home” to Save Maumee Volunteers. We identified plants that are native to our riverbanks and THANK YOU FOR PLUCKING the seeds for plantings on our riverbanks….Remember, to 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 over $650 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 just 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 in April.
What 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 FOR OUR RECORD KEEPING! WE WILL HELP YOU LABEL!
Pictures from Seed Harvest 2015 or 2009
CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT WE PLANT AND WHY!
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10th Annual Seed Harvest ~ October 7, 2017
- CUP PLANT (Silphium perfoliatum)
- Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- BLACK EYED SUSAN (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Joe-Pye-Weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
- ROSINWEED (Silphium Integrifolium)
- Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)
- BEE BALM (Monarda fistlosa)
- Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
- SAWTOOTH SUNFLOWER (Helianthus grosseserratus)
- Fox Glove Beardstongue (Penstemon digitalis)
- SMARTWEED (Polygonum spp.)
- Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardil)
- Little Blue Stem
- Turkey Foot Grass – (Tripsacum dactyloides)
- Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
- CANADA WILD RYE (Elymus canadensis)
- Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
- Grey Coneflower
- Water Plantain (Alisma subcordatum)
- Blue Joint Grass (canadensis
- False Sunflower
- False Boneset (brickellia eupatorioides)
- White Snakeroot (Ageratina altissima)
- New England Aster
- Smooth Aster
- Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus)
- Verbina hastata
- Anise (Pinpinella anisum)
- Monarda/Bergamot
- Button Bush
- Common Sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale)
- Wild Senna (Cassia hebecarpa)
- Prairie Dock
- Echinaecia
- Summac
- Brickles Sedge
- Wool Grass (Scripus cyperinus)
- Asa’s Gray Sedge (Carex grayi)
- Meadow Sedge (Carex granularis)
- Crested Sedge (Carex cristatella)
- Yarrow
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- We also collected from Plant Happiness ~ Nodding Pink Onion (Allium cernuum), Rattlesnake Master, New England Aster, Monkey Flower,
CLICK TO SEE OUR PROGRESS FROM OUR 2015 HARVEST!
What did we collect for SMGO Seed Harvest 2014?
- CUP PLANT (Silphium perfoliatum)
- Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- BLACK EYED SUSAN (Rudbeckia hirta)
- Joe-Pye-Weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
- ROSINWEED (Silphium Integrifolium)
- Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum)
- BEE BALM (Monarda fistlosa)
- Ironweed (Vernonia fasciculata)
- SAWTOOTH SUNFLOWER (Helianthus grosseserratus)
- Fox Glove Beardstongue (Penstemon digitalis)
- SMARTWEED (Polygonum spp.)
- Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardil)
- Little Blue Stem
- Turkey Foot Grass – (Tripsacum dactyloides)
- Indian Grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
- CANADA WILD RYE (Elymus canadensis)
- Yellow Coneflower (Ratibida pinnata)
- False Boneset (brickellia eupatorioides)
- Verbina hastata
- Anise (Pinpinella anisum)
- Monarda/Bergamot
- Marsh Mallow was also collected from our Canoe Clean-Up in September 2014
Value of purchasing seeds:
FULL LIST OF PLANTS/VALUE via Heartland Restoration/Earth Source