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The San Miguel Basin Extension office provides assistance and programs for citizens in five main areas: 4-H/Youth Development, Ag/Local Food, Gardening, Natural Resources and Home, Family & Health.

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2023 Native Plant Education Field Classes are listed below:

Summer Native Plant Classes

  • May 19th 9 am till 3 pm, OA Greager Open Space & Miramonte
    (This class is cancelled.)

  • June 9th, Thunder Trails in bloom, 9 am till 3 pm
  • June 23, Thunder Trails in bloom and seed, 9am till 3pm
  • July 27, Calico Trail, summer bloom, 9 am till 3pm

Class size is limited- reserve your spot! $25

Call 970-327-4393 or email Mary at maryw@sanmiguelcountyco.gov  if you want sign-up or to be on our email list for Native Plant Education classes.

Do you want to find out what’s blooming and learn more about some of your favorite plants in Colorado? 

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Do you want to find out what’s blooming and learn more about some of your favorite plants in Colorado? 

Come Explore with us by Attending at Native Plant Class.

Click here for the SMB Native Plant Brochure

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Come Explore with us by Attending at Native Plant Class.

Click here for the SMB Native Plant Brochure

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The 2022-23 Seedling Program cancelled!

There will be NO orders for 2023 through the Colorado State Forest Service.

Email Mary Watson at maryw@sanmiguelcountyco.gov to be on the email list to receive an application form or have questions about ordering.

Any Landowners in the San Miguel and West Montrose counties area are able to buy Seedling Plants from the CSU Extension Office in Norwood.  The seedlings are sold in cooperation with the Colorado State Forest Service. After ordering and paying with a check, you will pick them up around the first or second week in May here in Norwood; we will inform you of the date.

 
We offer perennial wildflowers and grasses, bare root trees, regular potted trees; they are offered in lots of 25 or 30 at a nominal cost, cash or check only. We have over 40 different species are available – both deciduous and conifers. 

Click here information on Wind Breaks.

 


 Email Mary or Yvette:
maryw@sanmiguelcountyco.gov |  yvette.henson@colostate.edu