Native Plant Trust Inc

Public programs - public programs offered 133 courses in 2024 reaching 2,440 registrants. Sixty-two of these were virtual programs accessible to learners everywhere with seventy-one in-person programs. Highlights included a multi-day exhibit at garden in the woods from visiting artist julie c baer, regarding nature, inspired by the changing forms of plants, algae, fungi, and lichens across their life cycles; "leave the leaves, save the stems," a virtual course offering focused on providing pollinator habitat; and "emerging trends in plants, landscapes, and land care," highlighting changing trends in land management and how native plants are impacting the industry.

Conservation - native plant trust's work with rare and endangered plants in 2024 included rare plant monitoring and demographic study, seed banking and germination research, invasive species removal, field work, and in situ restoration. Work on the 3rd edition of "flora conservanda", a comprehensive report on plant conservation priorities in new england, continued. Delays in building the large dataset and coordinating feedback across the region have meant pushing back the expected publication date to late 2025. This report is created in partnership with the organization's new england plant conservation program partners including the six state natural heritage programs. In 2024, 110 trained plant conservation volunteers spent 5,550 hours conducting 376 surveys for rare plants. Surveys were conducted in all new england states and 70% of surveys located the target rare species. In 2024 the seed bank received 41 new accessions from 35 rare species locations within the six states of new england. The species added included rare violets, sedges, thistles, grasses, asters, milkweeds, and rhododendrons. Additionally, a new seed freezer at nasami farm and satellite freezers at garden in the woods were put into service to expand long-term seed storage capacity. A remote temperature monitoring system was installed to ensure timely detection of temperature fluctuations and a backup generator was installed at nasami farm to protect against power outages.

Visitor center - retail operations at garden in the woods and nasami farm serve members (with discounts), visitors, and wholesale customers by offering a large selection of known-provenance native plants they could find nowhere else, plus books and merchandise related to botany, horticulture, and conservation. In 2024, the organization expanded the retail nursery yard and sold over 106,000 individual plants. With a limited selection of native plants at nurseries and garden centers, and few of these offering wild-type plants of known provenance, native plant sales remain a critical point of delivery on the organization's mission.membership - served 6,651 member households with a range of benefits, including e-communications, publications, education and nursery discounts, reciprocal admissions to other gardens, and special events.