Let’s make a seed bomb!
We are so excited for our first run of Cascadia Pollinator Seed Bomb kits. It’s the start of our regular send out for members and Cascadia Underground Patreon supporters, and if you’re a member they are already on their way to you! If you’re not a member, feel free to grab a few from our store, and get them out in your yard, or to friends!
Enclosed in each pack is a bundle of native wildflower seeds, a little booklet and some clay powder if you’d like to make little seed bombs.
These little packs of native wildflower seeds are meant to support local plants and pollinators! All of which are a crucial component of ecosystems at large. In the Cascadia Bioregion we have native pollinators like hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, moths, flies, wasps, and beetles. Cities can be pollinator deserts because of lawns and manicured city agriculture.
For the past decade pollinator populations have really struggled. It’s been shown that sometimes chemicals in fertilizers that are used, or non-native plants that typically line a city street or exist in a yard aren’t pollinator friendly. Pollinators require diverse plant life, undisturbed sites to find shelter, bright colored flowers, and a reduction in artificial lights that can disturb natural patterns. Many are now at risk for extinction.
The best way to save our local ecosystems is by planting native seeds! Native plants help restore natural habitat that has been diminished and destroyed by a multitude of practices. Our bio-diversity thrives on the specific micro-climates and ecosystems that have been adapted to our region over thousands of years. In helping restore animals and plants, it’s imperative to plant as many native species as possible when converting spaces back into native habitat. In doing so, we provide the kinds of flora that pollinators and other wildlife thrive on.
We here in the Cascadia bioregion sit on the forefront of the major crises and issues facing our world. But luckily there is a lot we can be doing about that. We think these pollinator packs are a great, simple, and effective way to make a little difference, and an easy and sustainable way to cultivate healthy native ecosystems, pollinators and plants. By growing pollinator friendly, native plants, avoiding pesticides, providing nesting sites, and encouraging others to join in, we can restore habitat for pollinators and push back against the waves of decline that threaten pollinator populations.
Grab one now!
If you’d like to pick up a bundle, we have three sizes available, “personal use”, “bomb your yard” and “bomb your neighborhood”.
Sprinkle them in your yard, get them out into the world, or create little seed bombs that can be tossed around where you live to help restore native habitat, microbes, pollinators, butterflies, birds and animals.
