1/27/2024 - Winter Sowing Event Join us for a morning of Winter Sowing, and a PowerPoint presentation about Native Plants and their ability to support wildlife, especially pollinators and plant-eating insects that in turn provide protein-rich food for birds and animals. Growing bird-friendly plants will attract and protect the birds you love while making your space beautiful, easy to care for, and better for the environment. What is winter sowing you ask? Winter sowing is a seed-starting technique where seeds are started outdoors in containers in late autumn or winter. The cold weather stratifies the seeds and prompts germination when the time is right. Many native perennials require stratification, a treatment that uses temperature and moisture to soften the seed coat and break seed dormancy. Please bring your own transparent or translucent containers with lids. Salad clamshells work as well as gallon milk containers cut in half. We will provide containers for those who don't have them. Handicapped parking by the barn. Accessible bathroom on site. ### Event: Winter Sowing Event Event Date: 1/27/2024 Event Snow/Rain Date: 2/3/2024 Event Time: 10:30 AM Admission Fee: $15.00 Registration Deadline: 1/26/2024 Registration Instructions: https://act.audubon.org/a/winter-sowing-at-the-bent Event Organizers: Bent of the River Audubon Center | 203-405-9113 | kpratt@audubon.org | bentoftheriver.audubon.org | www.facebook.com/bentoftheriver Event Location: Bent of the River Audubon Center, 185 East Flat Hill Rd. Southbury, CT 06488 Archives
Join us for a morning of Winter Sowing, and a PowerPoint presentation about Native Plants and their ability to support wildlife, especially pollinators and plant-eating insects that in turn provide protein-rich food for birds and animals. Growing bird-friendly plants will attract and protect the birds you love while making your space beautiful, easy to care for, and better for the environment.
What is winter sowing you ask? Winter sowing is a seed-starting technique where seeds are started outdoors in containers in late autumn or winter. The cold weather stratifies the seeds and prompts germination when the time is right. Many native perennials require stratification, a treatment that uses temperature and moisture to soften the seed coat and break seed dormancy.
Please bring your own transparent or translucent containers with lids. Salad clamshells work as well as gallon milk containers cut in half. We will provide containers for those who don't have them.
Handicapped parking by the barn. Accessible bathroom on site.
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Event: Winter Sowing Event Event Date: 1/27/2024 Event Snow/Rain Date: 2/3/2024 Event Time: 10:30 AM Admission Fee: $15.00 Registration Deadline: 1/26/2024 Registration Instructions: https://act.audubon.org/a/winter-sowing-at-the-bent Event Organizers: Bent of the River Audubon Center | 203-405-9113 | kpratt@audubon.org | bentoftheriver.audubon.org | www.facebook.com/bentoftheriver Event Location: Bent of the River Audubon Center, 185 East Flat Hill Rd. Southbury, CT 06488