Annual Native Plant Sale Rides Again

by Caroline Skinner

Volunteers had fun helping at the pop up native plant sale held jointly by FoBW and Sparrowhawk Native Plants on the last weekend of March. On Thursday morning, big trucks delivered pre-ordered plants of all shapes and sizes, then workers laid them out on the ground, arranged in organized groups by type. In the afternoon, volunteers marked each and every plant with an ID tag. Yes, all 10,000 of them!

For the next two days, customers came at pre-arranged time slots to pick up the myriad of native plants they had pre-ordered. The sale was a roaring success with a complete sell-out. There were about $50,000 in plant sales overall. A generous portion of the proceeds, around $4,000, was donated to FoBW in exchange for our help promoting the sale and recruiting volunteers for all three days. 

Our group is very fortunate to be one of three non-profit partner groups Sparrowhawk selected this spring. We are grateful to our customers and volunteers as well as the amazing Sparrowhawk team, Nikkie and Tracy, in their bright pink aprons. Thank you so much everyone who contributed to making the sale a success!