PARTNERSHIPS

Here are a few organizations we have partnered with to grow native habitats, educate the public about native plants and create opportunities for community building.  

City of Burnsville - Natural Resource Department

If you live in Burnsville, you may have noticed native plantings popping up in your local parks and natural areas. Some of those plants started right here with us.

We partner with the City of Burnsville's Natural Resources Department to support local habitat restoration. City staff and local volunteers collect native plant seeds from Burnsville's own parks, bring them to us, and we grow the plants out at no charge. These local origin plants are delivered back to the city to be planted in parks and restoration projects across the community. You can’t get more local eco-type than seeds sourced from your neighborhood park, grown in your neighbor’s backyard and returned to the land they came from. Plants that we have grown are already in the ground at Interlachen Park, Alimagnet Park, and Terrace Oaks East, quietly doing the work of rebuilding native habitat for the insects and animals that share the community with us.

If you live in the area and you are looking to make difference, consider becoming an official city volunteer. They always need help collecting seeds, removing invasive plants and staffing public events.

Gideon Pond Elementary School

Behind Gideon Pond Elementary sits a small garden plot near the basketball courts and playground — a sunny, well-traveled spot where students, faculty, staff and neighbors all pass through. For years the space had been overtaken by weedy and invasive species, leaving little quality habitat for the pollinators, songbirds, and animals that once called it home.

In 2023, we partnered with the school community to design and install a 1000 square foot native plant garden, built with hands-on help from school volunteers. The design is rooted in the concept of partnership — plants chosen to complement each other across bloom time, growth rate, and ecological services, with something to offer in every season of the academic year.

The garden was created to be a living classroom for teachers and students to explore and learn about natural science in the real world. Children who grow up with direct experience in nature develop a deeper sense of curiosity and connection to the world around them. By surrounding students with the plants that define Minnesota's natural heritage we give them something rare: a chance to know where they come from, and why it's worth protecting.

In fall 2024, we planted a second native garden at the front of the school as a welcoming first impression to greets students, families, and visitors with the beauty of native plants every single day. We host volunteer events each spring and fall at both sites to weed, edit and expand the gardens.

Wild Ones

Wild Ones is a national nonprofit whose mission is to foster ecologically sound landscapes through education, advocacy, and the use of native plants. Setting out to create habitat that supports biodiversity and healthy ecosystems from the ground up.

We have been a proud Business Member of the national Wild Ones organization since 2024 and actively collaborate with two local chapters — Prairie's Edge and Big River Big Woods. Our relationship with Wild Ones began in 2023 when we first got involved as volunteers, deepening in 2024 when we joined their annual native plant sales as a vendor. We continue to participate in those sales and look forward to expanding our role by presenting workshops and lectures on native plant gardening helping chapter members and the broader community grow their knowledge alongside their gardens.

If you are passionate about native plants consider becoming a Wild Ones member.  

Blue Thumb

Blue Thumb is the education wing of Metro Blooms and the organization behind Minnesota's Lawns to Legumes grant program. Blue Thumb engages with communities and shares accessible knowledge and resources to protect the environment and create a more sustainable future by changing landscaping norms among professionals, property owners, and renters towards reducing runoff, cleaning groundwater and creating native habitat.

We became an official Blue Thumb partner in 2026 after our participation in their 2025 Fall Native Plant Sale. We continue to participate in the annual sale and collaborate with Blue Thumb to educate local citizens about the power of native plants through teaching workshops, panel discussions, lectures, and tabling at pop-up events around the Twin Cities community.

Homegrown National Park

Homegrown National Park is a grassroots conservation movement founded by Doug Tallamy and Michelle Alfandari, challenging Americans to reimagine their own yards and landscapes as vital wildlife habitat. The premise is simple but powerful: if we collectively converted even half of the 40 million acres of lawn in the United States to native plantings, we'd create the largest nature reserve in the country — built one backyard at a time.

We are proud to collaborate with Homegrown National Park in
support of their mission. As part of our commitment, we donated a 100 Sq. Ft. Native Garden with In-Person Consultation to their 2025 and 2026 fundraising auctions. Helping to grow the Homegrown National Park one yard at a time.

If you have a native planting on your property consider adding your property to the map!



Call for collaboration!

Call to schools, nonprofit education and environmental advocacy groups, non-governmental organizations and others who share our mission share our goals of connecting people to place through the preservation, restoration and recreation of native habitats in MN.

We care and we want to connect with you and collaborate!

Please reach out if you have opportunities or ideas.

If you are connected to a school or nonprofit, we would love
to work together. We offer non-profits free consultation and design services,
discounted plant pricing, and in select cases, plant donations. If you would
like to connect inquire via email or stop by the nursery.

Let’s Grow, Educate and Create together !

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