Native Planting and Seeding
One of the first steps to restoring ecosystem resilience and function is ensuring healthy, diverse native plant communities. In some cases, there is not enough native seed in the seedbed for native plant populations to recover in a degraded area. Furthermore, seeds and seedlings often fight for resources with non-native and invasive species. Adding native species to a site through planting and seeding can improve the success of native species growth. It can also jumpstart the recovery of a landscape that has been stripped of native habitat entirely.
Why Plant or Seed?
Preserve a native habitat by creating a more diverse and robust species population
Re-establish native habitat in a previously developed or agricultural area
Hold soil in-place on hills, slopes, or stream banks with long, native root structures
Restore a landscape after a disturbance such as a windstorm or logging
Preserve and protect commercial availability of crop trees for future generations
Offset your family or company carbon footprint
Protect water from nutrient run-off and soil erosion
Improve your home insulation by blocking wind with a windbreak
Install a windbreak to protect fields from erosion
Improve or create pollinator habitat
Encourage or promote wildlife by increasing food or shelter
Establish edible plant resources for foraging or homesteading
We love seeding and planting, so whatever your project, let us help you make it happen!
Why Plant Native?
Here at NRP, we are all about native resources. That means we encourage using plants and seed native to an area, and sourcing locally whenever possible. Planting native has many benefits. Native plants are naturally adapted to our ecosystems, so they have a better chance of survival and may require less maintenance over the long term. Native plants also help ensure the endurance of native seed sources vital for future ecosystem resilience against disturbance. Plus, native plants benefit insects, pollinators, birds, and wildlife that all evolved to rely on those specific plants.
Planting and Seeding Services
Many successful planting and seeding projects have left us with a variety of tools, tricks, and skills. We have a diverse array of equipment for handling any kind of seeding or planting projects, including seed collection. Don’t be afraid to challenge us with your ideas--we love rising to challenges!
Plant installation: plugs, gallon pots, bare root, ball and burlap
Mulching and watering
Seedling protection and enclosures
Planting designs
Pollinator plantings
Rain garden plantings
Slope stabilization plantings
Shoreline plantings
Seeding: hand, broadcast, no till, dormant, overseeding
Erosion control blanket and straw mulching
Seed collection
Multi-scale: small backyard to multi-acre
Follow up maintenance: mowing, weeding, spot spraying, watering, re-seeding, etc.
Interested in getting seed for your project? --Check out our Seed Supplier page to see how to order standard and custom seed mixes directly through us!
