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If you’ve seen your garden flowers turning brown, it may be time to start collecting the seeds to give you more plants for free next year. Collecting seeds from lavender, foxgloves, honesty, ...

Editor’s note: In October 2023, the project coordinator of the program described in this story, Dan Werk, was convicted of sexually abusing a minor enrolled in the program. High Country News will ...

At some point, even though it’s easy to buy seeds in stores and online, most gardeners think about collecting and saving their own seeds. Collecting and saving your own seeds does require some thought ...

BROWN COUNTY (WLUK) -- A unique geological feature found in northeastern Brown County is getting some needed help. At the Red Banks Alvar State Natural Area,efforts are underway to improve the prairie ...

Best practices and important insight into seed collecting are expected to be shared at an upcoming workshop at the Clark County Public Library’s Main Branch. Attendees can expect to learn all about ...

When it comes to gardening, many plants are gifts that keep on giving, even after the growing season has come to an end. There are plenty of seeds you can harvest from your garden and replant to enjoy ...

Changing and falling leaves are a sure sign of fall, and so are milkweed seed pods starting to dry out in preparation of being harvested. Milkweed is the only host plant of monarch butterflies, ...

The pods should be placed in a paper bag and stored a dry place before being dropped off. The bags should also be marked with the county where they were collected. Lininger said that’s to better ...

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis area residents can get a few extra bucks by helping save Missouri's native trees from going extinct. The Missouri Department of Conservation is purchasing seeds from the public ...