The next generation
starts here.
A shared collection of native seeds that connects established habitat with new plants, learning, and care.
Keeping the habitat cycle going
A Forever Habitat Home does not have to be the end of a plant’s story. Once native plants are established and producing seed, that seed can help begin the next generation.
The Seed Share Vault gives collected native seed a shared home. Seeds can be cleaned, labeled, stored by species, and used later for germination, growing, and Foster-a-Sprout activities.
That creates a cycle a school or community can return to: established habitat produces seed, the Vault keeps it available, new plants are grown and fostered, and some eventually become part of lasting habitat themselves.
More than seed storage
The Vault connects what is already growing with what can be grown next, while giving students and community participants a resource they can keep building together.
From seed to habitat, and back again
The Vault helps connect the stages of the plant life cycle instead of treating seed collection, growing, fostering, and habitat as separate activities.
01Collect native seed
02Clean, share & store
03Germinate & grow
04Foster a sprout
05Plant a forever home
For example, students might collect seed in fall, clean and add it to the Vault, choose species later for cold stratification or germination, grow young plants, foster them, and eventually establish some in a Forever Habitat Home. As those plants mature, the cycle can begin again.
A shared resource that grows with the community
Each Vault starts with an organized binder and native seed packets, with room intentionally left for students and community participants to add to the collection over time.
We help start it
Each Vault begins with an organized binder and a selection of native seed packets. Open spaces are left for new species and future additions.
Your community builds it
Students, residents, staff, and other participants can collect native seed, clean and label it, and add packets back into the shared collection.
Future participants use it
The collection stays useful beyond a single activity. Future students, residents, teachers, staff, and community members can choose seeds, add to the Vault, and keep it growing.
Use the pieces that fit
A school or community does not have to complete the entire cycle. The Seed Share Vault can stand on its own as a shared native-seed resource, or different parts can be connected to existing lessons, activities, community programs, and Foster-a-Sprout experiences.
At events, a Vault can also become a physical seed-sharing station where people can contribute native seed or choose packets to take and grow.
The Seed Share Vault grew out of our work with Adams 12 Five Star Schools as a simple way to connect seed collection, cleaning, storage, germination, and plant fostering instead of leaving them as separate activities.
Built to stay behind
Unlike a one-time activity, the Vault can remain with the site. What one group collects can be used by the next group, and each new group can leave something useful for the people who come after them.
The exact seed selection and activities can be adapted to the site, season, and participants.