About the Online Sale

The 2024 Master Watershed Steward Watershed-Friendly Native Plant Kit Sale, hosted by the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Program, offers three preselected watershed-friendly native plant plug kits. Simply pick your preferred kit and select the most convenient curbside fall pickup location from 17 sites across the state. Proceeds from the Watershed-Friendly Native Plant Kits will support the Master Watershed Steward program providing volunteer-driven education and restoration work in that region. Each of the Watershed-Friendly kits are designed to help you incorporate more native plants into your property for habitat creation, stormwater management, pollutant reduction, and other positive ecological services.

Sale Details

Select your watershed-friendly kits through our online plant sale and enhance your property with native plants for a thriving ecosystem!

The order pickup locations can be found on the website.

Reducing stormwater runoff, reducing water pollution, conserving water, and supporting wildlife and pollinators are critical elements of healthy watershed-friendly properties and the focus areas of the Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward Watershed-Friendly certification, a collaboration with Nurture Nature Center. Native plants are woven throughout the certification criteria because of all the benefits that native plant gardens can provide.

Plant plugs will be between less than an inch to several inches tall, and the roots will be between 1-3 inches in plastic wells. Please see the resources for plug care and planting instructions. Any plants not picked up by the date/time listed for your registration location will be donated.

Watershed-Friendly Kit Selection Details

• Bountiful Kits include 5 species with 5 individual plants of each species. A total of 25 plants.
• Container Kits are a smaller kit option that includes 5 species with one (1) plant of each species. A total of 5 plants.

Kits are composed of plant plugs from carefully selected species grown by Kind Earth Growers using locally collected open-source pollinated seeds and 50% peat-free growing media. Plant plugs are smaller than what is typically found in nurseries, allowing for easier transportation and planting within existing vegetation. The plugs have healthy root systems which will establish this fall so that your plants can flourish next growing season.

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All items must be preordered.

Plants will not be available for purchase at pickup sites.