Volunteer native seed collection opportunity
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Kelly Bills
Jun 10, 2025, 4:04:58 PMJun 10
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Hello,
I am writing to let you know about a volunteer native seed collection opportunity. Pollinator Partnership (P2), a pollinator conservation non-profit based in San Francisco, has joined forces with several partner organizations to expand Project Wingspan, our native seed collection and habitat enhancement program, into the Bay Area for the first time and we need your help!
We are looking for enthusiastic seed collecting volunteers in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties to help identify and collect milkweed and other pollinator-friendly native plants. As a seed collecting volunteer, you will be provided with the training needed to make valuable contributions to migrating monarchs and other imperiled pollinators. No seed collecting experience is required, but basic plant knowledge is preferred.
How does it work? Volunteers and Pollinator Partnership staff will collect native, local ecotype seed from nectar and forage plants from various parks, preserves, and other collection sites. This seed will be cleaned, tested, and either amplified or grown as plugs by our nursery partner. These amplified seeds and plants will be distributed for free to habitat planting projects in the area the seed was collected in.
Are you interested in helping us with seed collection? Please fill out the online form here.
We are looking for enthusiastic seed collecting volunteers in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma, Napa and Marin counties to help identify and collect milkweed and other pollinator-friendly native plants. As a seed collecting volunteer, you will be provided with the training needed to make valuable contributions to migrating monarchs and other imperiled pollinators. No seed collecting experience is required, but basic plant knowledge is preferred.
How does it work? Volunteers and Pollinator Partnership staff will collect native, local ecotype seed from nectar and forage plants from various parks, preserves, and other collection sites. This seed will be cleaned, tested, and either amplified or grown as plugs by our nursery partner. These amplified seeds and plants will be distributed for free to habitat planting projects in the area the seed was collected in.
Are you interested in helping us with seed collection? Please fill out the online form here.
To see our list of target plants and sign-up as a seed collection location, please fill out our online form here.
Our project is made possible through a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Our project is made possible through a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
Kelly Bills (she/her)
Executive Director
Pollinator Partnership
ke...@pollinator.org | 585.255.0962
San Francisco, California
hq: 582 Market Street, Suite 1215, San Francisco, CA 94104
I respectfully acknowledge that I live and work on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.
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