{"id":1194,"date":"2011-10-23T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.intelliracks.com\/~inpaws\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2011-10-23T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T14:21:53","slug":"central-chapter-swaps-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/2011\/central-chapter-swaps-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Chapter Swaps Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of INPAWS Central Chapter brought seeds from their own native plants, but the harvest was dominated by the impressive quantities of seed culled from host Dan McCord&#8217;s suburban backyard. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dan McCord is the intrepid native plant enthusiast who persuaded his cornfield-conversion subdivision to plant a prairie where they would have had to spend $10K a year mowing turf grass. He&#8217;s the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltoncountyuca.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hamilton County Urban Conservation Association<\/a>, whose motto is &#8220;think habitat, not grass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dan treated us to a tour of his plantings, which included neatly mulched biohedges of nannyberry, black chokeberry, red oak, and serviceberry interspersed with stiff goldenrod, Riddle&#8217;s goldenrod, rattlesnake master, blue mist flower, and stands of little bluestem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>C-INPAWS program chair Daryn Fair (his landscape firm is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fallcreeklanddesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fall Creek Land Design<\/a>) lent his expertise to the proceedings, and a good time was had by all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1195\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/adam.intelliracks.com\/~inpaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-INPAWS_seed_swap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1195 \" title=\"C-INPAWS_seed_swap_Fair\" src=\"http:\/\/adam.intelliracks.com\/~inpaws\/wp-content\/uploads\/C-INPAWS_seed_swap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free-for-all in Dan McCord&#39;s garage<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This participant was delighted to walk away with bags full of seed to disperse at Cold Spring Environmental Magnet School&#8217;s prairie (started with seedlings lovingly nurtured by Youth Outreach&#8217;s Donovan Miller), the Traders Point Gateway greenspace project at the 71st Street and I-65 interchange, and her own mini-prairie that inhabits an mound of earth once dominated by a satellite dish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of INPAWS Central Chapter brought seeds from their own native plants, but the harvest was dominated by the impressive<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/2011\/central-chapter-swaps-seeds\/\" title=\"ReadCentral Chapter Swaps Seeds\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[25,27],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapter-news","tag-native-plants","tag-seed-swap"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiananativeplants.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}