Grow Native! Webinar: Collecting Native Seeds & Winter Sowing with Julie Farstad

Are you ready to dive into the magical world of collecting seeds and growing your own native plants? If so, this webinar is for you. Presenter Julie Farstad will present how you can collect native plant seeds, store them until the winter, and grow them in containers over the cold months. Experience the magic of peering down into your homemade mini greenhouses and seeing tiny seedlings sprouting up this coming April! Julie will share her experiences and experiments with winter sowing native plants in this fun, informative webinar.
Julie is an artist and Professor of Painting and Social Practice at the Kansas City Art Institute. Through her work, she explores native plants, and the act of cultivation in the context of ecological crisis in mixed media studio artwork and community based painting projects. She creates public-facing artwork in her Flowers For Marlborough Project that confronts neighborhood blight by sharing the beauty and function of native plants through large-scale painting, free workshops, and sowing and giving away free native plant seedlings to the Marlborough community. Her oil paintings on panel, including her Wildflower Revolution, Emergence, and Bewildering series explore the intricate forms of the native plants of the Midwest, are represented by Zg Gallery in Chicago and Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. Her exhibition of new works, entitled BeWilder, opens Friday, September 6, 2024 and is on display until October 19 2024.
Learn more at grownative.org
This webinar was recorded live on Wedneday August 28, 2024.