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Collecting and Cleaning Seeds from the Garden with Dolly Foster

Seed collecting is a fascinating skill to learn and can become quite addicting! This lost art is more important now due to the loss of natural lands all over the country. Why collect seeds from your garden? Collecting seeds helps you start new plants for free, protects diversity and affords you gifts for friends, family and community plantings. Some native plants can be difficult to find so collecting seeds from your garden or a trusted source can help save a species. Remember to never collect where you do not have permission. Seed Collecting Fun Fact: collecting seeds gets you outdoors on what could be the last good day of the year! Dolly Foster, has been a Horticulturist for 24 years, and a Certified Arborist since 2008, she holds a Masters in Agriculture from U of I. She grows and sells native plants and pollinator plants from her home by appointment. For the past 24 years, Dolly has been presenting lectures on many gardening topics. She spent two years as adjunct faculty at Joliet Junior College Agriculture/ Horticulture Department and 18 years in the Parks and Recreation industry as staff horticulturist for two park districts. She has been butterfly gardening from the very beginning of her gardening career. Her passion has led her to raising monarch and swallowtail butterflies for 16 years. Her garden at home has been a Monarch Waystation since 2011. Dolly also runs a micro plant nursery at her home selling plants exclusively for pollinators June-October. Dolly's email: Dolly@Hort4U.net Dolly's website: http://www.hort4u.net/ Dolly's Instagram: Hort4U