Wildflower Seed Harvesting Tips

At Spirit Tree Farms, we’re learning a lot about wildflower seed harvesting as we go along. Why do we do wildflower seed harvesting? Simple: To grow more wildflowers, to aid Mother Nature, and to attract more butterflies and other pollinators.

Wildflower Seed Harvesting Lessons

This year (Dec., 2021), as I was harvesting goldenrod and crownbeard (aka frost flowers or ice flowers) seedheads, as well as coralberries, on our property in Catoosa County, Georgia, here are some lessons learned (which we’re happy to share in this video) :

Use non-fabric bags
Use several bags (separating the different seedheads immediately)
With crownbeard, shake and smash the bag vigorously, THEN collect the seeds (and a few seedhead parts and stems) from the bottom of the bag.

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David Kuhns

Dave Kuhns is originally a quasi-city boy from suburban Milwaukee, but he spent weekends and summers in nature on Lake Winneconne in central Wisconsin. After raising his kids in a Seattle suburb, he moved to a small town in central Utah. He figured he’d buy some rural property there, or back in the Badger State.

Then he fell in love. Through a series of amazing events, he bought a rural property (a few acres) across the creek from the Chickamauga National Military Park (Civil War battlefield). There, he and his new wife are putting into reality the conservation, gardening and land management practices he learned from his grandmother, his forest ranger Dad, his little brother, and his own surburban experience.