Events

Wild Ones Front Range is hosting our 2nd Annual Boulder County Regional Native Plant Swap! All plants are grown by volunteers and community members; plant stock isn’t commercially grown.

This swap is super early in the season; this is when plants will have best success being planted (cooler, moister), and we will have plenty of plants ready.  

Participation: no need to bring plants to receive plants. Event is at a private farm; registrants will receive address week of event. You must register to attend.

Please note: Wild Ones Front Range members will have first access to plants and are welcome at 10 am. Non-members (members of the public) are welcome at the swap, beginning at 11 am. If you are a non-member making a donation of native plants, get in touch, and we'll add you to the earlier entrance time.

Plant donations:
Please follow these general guidelines:

Label Plants:
• The plant’s botanical (Latin) name
• The plant’s common name
• Your first initial and last name

• Please include the general location or elevation of where it grew, if you can

No plants grown with pesticides nor neonicotinoids. No noxious weeds as defined by the CDA Labelling specifications.

We will gladly accept plants native to Colorado and neighboring states, including Arizona and Texas. If you have questions, please contact us.
 

Know you're bringing plants? As far in advance as you can, please fill this out! If you have a lot of plants and need help labeling or need to drop off in advance, please be in touch! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6VoGel4ZhM9lFaWFq-Z_UDwtr8_5vw6lSDw73Ro7SYvwu0w/viewform

Volunteer for a shift at this event, signup at:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B44AEAD2EABF5CE9-56119694-wild#/

Please considering volunteering for the event! Review & register for a volunteer shifts at the link above to sign up for a 2 hour shift if that works for you. Knowledge about native and pollinator plants is a plus, but not required. In fact, volunteering will help you learn more about them if you’re interested! Set up will be Saturday, May 3rd.  We will have a LOT of opportunities to volunteer from now through cleaning up in order to make the event a success.

This is a working private farm with farm animals; we ask that children be supervised by an accompanying adult.

PLEASE BRING A BOX OR A BAG TO TOTE YOUR PLANTS HOME!

(What about small plants which are in the pipeline which won’t be mature enough for this swap?  We would like to start a “culture” of people bringing excess plants to any and all regional events.  There will be more garden crawls, more hikes, more social events, and more propagation events, and we would just like to have a steady trickle of plants going out through October.  Instead of door prizes, come to regional events and maybe leave with a penstemon!)