Friends at Seed Fair of Eagle Heights Community Garden–March 30

At the Eagle Heights Community Gardeners Seed Fair, on Saturday morning, March 30, Doris Dubielzig had a lot of fun representing the Friends. Visitors were encouraged to dissect a lima bean to locate the embryonic plant inside the seed (“Oooh!”). Bryn Scriver, Preserve Outreach Coordinator, provided the seeds for a second challenge, to match seeds of five butterfly-attracting prairie plants that grow in the Preserve with illustrations of the plants. Given the Seed Fair clientele, those who rose to the seed matching challenge all scored 80% or higher. The relatively large seeds of wild onion, Allium cernuum, were the hardest to match.Tom Bryan, of the Greenhouse Learning Community, provided a a tray of vegetable seedlings to show their passive watering system and a baby burr oak (another dicot!). Visitors received maps of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve, diagrams of monocot and dicot seed structures, and the list of 2019 Spring and Summer Field Trips and Volunteer Workdays.