Written by Andrea Grossman. Edited by Miri Becker.
With the success of our 2025 Fall Native Plant Sale, we wanted to give a shoutout to Minuteman High School, Dragonfly Natives, and our other vendors.
We want to first thank Minuteman High School for hosting us for our Fall Sale and for future sales to come! Specifically, we want to thank Sarah Ard who is the Horticulture and Plant Science teacher/Life Science Pathway Lead. Sarah, you gave us a home for our sales, and we greatly appreciate the time you took communicating with us and helping to plan out the sale. You helped create labels for us, managed to pack the orders, put out the signs, and helped set up the classroom to have it perfect for the sale. MHS students, we appreciate the time you took to pack each order, noting the type and amount of each plant for the orders. We thank you for pulling apart the trays and labeling each individual plug for us. Your location was significantly beneficial to our customers, as they had a much easier time accessing the sale than earlier ones. We cannot thank you enough for your help and support!
We also want to thank Jasmin from Dragonfly Natives. You have provided us with plants for two sales so far, and each time, the plants were so healthy and vibrant. Some were even flowering like the Boneset from this sale and the Wild Geranium and Wild Strawberry from the 2025 Spring sale! The landscape plug trays were so much easier to pull apart and gave us more time to focus on orders! We love the vast variety of native plants you have and how gorgeous each one of them is. You are fantastic with communication and have provided us with not only the plants we ordered but extra were included as well! These plants are not only providing our customers with pretty flowers, but helping our native pollinators, wildlife, and soil as well!
The District would also like to thank Pinelands Nursery for the wildflowers, ferns, grasses, trees, and shrubs we have bought from them for this sale and earlier ones. The diversity of plants Pinelands has is amazing and they do magnificent work for restoration efforts. We’d also like to thank New Moon Nursery for getting us New Jersey Tea at such short notice! It was an immense help to our customers who ordered them from our pre-ordering sale. Lastly, we’d like to thank Ernst Conservation Seed, the Northeast Seed Collective, Prairie Moon Nursery, and New England Wetland Plants for all the native seeds we bought from them. The quality of the seeds was excellent!
Image Credits: Maury Lauve