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MISSION STATEMENT: Empower citizens to help heal the environment by connecting them to the organizations that do the hard work of restoring native wildlife habitat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604530776208-S7096I5SUAA9XBFQ7PIZ/image-asset.jpeg Home - 1. To begin, soil, nursery pots, landscape fabric, and commercially grown native seedling sprouts are distributed to volunteer gardeners. Each gets enough to make a 100 seedling “Micro-Nursery”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604530779870-DZHO4UW3ZF6LJ5P1GB2U/image-asset.jpeg Home - 2. The gardeners plant the seedling sprouts in the pots, which they lovingly tend as they grow for the next 2 years. If arranged in a square, each 100 seedling Micro-Nursery measures only about 4 feet by 4 feet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604530778096-NEBTQU5UTLM47BK1WOBQ/image-asset.jpeg Home - 3. After 2 years, the seedlings have grown bigger and are strong enough to better survive in the wild. Grow It Forward then collects and transports them to local sites undergoing habitat restoration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604530781404-LLQJMPSLIGXV1DH83BZF/image-asset.jpeg Home - 4. Habitat Restoration organizations plant the finished seedlings at sites where they are restoring damaged habitat to a more natural forest. 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Unloading 500 pounds of topsoil at a Micro-Nursery site https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604531235545-S3X2EC8OEL6ISU1TWS7I/image-asset.jpeg What Is A Micro-Nursery? - 2. 2. All the materials to assemble a Micro-Nursery delivered to a volunteer’s house: 500 pounds of topsoil, 100 plastic nursery pots, 100 commercial nursery seedlings (these are western hemlock), and a piece of landscape fabric. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604624049687-V496JH56VX60W9WAZVSN/4+-add+soil+to+cover+roots+while+holding+plant-vert.jpg What Is A Micro-Nursery? - 3. 3. Seedling is planted in in a 4 x 4 x 10 inch pot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604622478022-SHA6TJTW086JQY2U2H9O/6+-simple+frame+to+hold+pots+upright+on+top+of+landscape+fabric-grow-it-forward.jpg What Is A Micro-Nursery? - 4. 4. A Completed Micro-Nursery. The volunteer must keep the plants watered and safe for the next 1 to 2 years before they are ready to be shipped to a restoration site to become a new forest! https://growitfwd.org/why-create-micro-nurseries daily 0.75 2020-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604531397089-Q5BQV4QLFKJ737LHF7SL/image-asset.jpeg Why Create Micro-Nurseries? - MICRO-NURSERIES https://growitfwd.org/micro-nursery-seedlings daily 0.75 2020-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604623163783-RQHK3JQ8IYXS4DBGLP1Y/Transport+200+seedlings+to+first+site+3-grow-it-forward.jpg What Happens To The Micro-Nursery Plants? - Micro-Nurseries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604623069087-ZIY8JEEOMZHYNI1J90O2/Collect+from+micronurseries+Nathalie+G+3-grow-it-forward.jpg What Happens To The Micro-Nursery Plants? - 1. 1. Collecting seedlings that are ready to be planted https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1606600040999-N25HM7G43RZ4OYUV2OKI/IMG_4508.JPG What Happens To The Micro-Nursery Plants? - 2. 2. A shipment of seedlings ready to be transported to a habitat restoration site. This is a load with 200 seedlings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604623163783-RQHK3JQ8IYXS4DBGLP1Y/Transport+200+seedlings+to+first+site+3-grow-it-forward.jpg What Happens To The Micro-Nursery Plants? - 3. 2. Transporting seedlings to a planting site https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e6d8059bd2f8a6de83d9eb7/1604623276398-2NBC1DS6XT3600EIPKY3/Sheri+F+plants+tree+at+Sedro+Woolley+fill+_+place+protector+4-grow-it-forward.jpg What Happens To The Micro-Nursery Plants? - 4. 3. 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