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NYS SEED AND PLANT PROGRAMS |
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As part of our effort to encourage and support NWTF members to get and stay involved in wildlife conservation on private lands we utilize some of the NYS Chapter Superfund money to provide seed either free or at a significantly reduced price. These opportunities are generally offered annually and may vary on the type of plant seed, quantity and price based on availability. |
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To take advantage of these offers you must be an NWTF member. To review the history of plant and seed programs over the past several years click here to download PDF document (36k).
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Operation Apple Seed |
Each year local chapters have the option of receiving up to 25 crab apple tree seedling packages each year for distribution to their members. These packages include seedlings along with enough shelters, stakes, plastic weed mat, and fertilizer for each seeding.
*** Chapter President Alert***
Each Year by February 9 you should have received a Crabapple tree order form in the mail that must be returned to Edgefield by the March 1 deadline to receive your chapter's seedlings and survival kits?
If you know your chapter will not be planting trees please do not to order so that other chapters that will plant them can have them. |
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Spring Seed Subsidy |
Members only: We often offer the opportunity for our members to purchase food plot seed at a significantly reduced price. Type of seed offerings vary from year to year.
Typically, this opportunity provides members with a seed blend that covers 1 acre per bag and provides great brood habitat for turkeys and excellent forage for deer. The amount of money saved by a member purchasing a bag of seed offsets the cost of a Regular NWTF membership.
To find out more about the NYS Spring Seed Subsidy offering read your copy of the Winter/Spring NYS Chapter Newsletter. The Newsletter will also contain an order form. Note: This is a limited quantity and limited time offer so you must act quickly once the newsletter reaches your mailbox. |
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Conservation Seed Program |
It has been our past practice to offer our chapters free corn and/or sunflower and/or soybean seed each spring based on availability, to be distributed equitably to their members that intend to plant it. The NWTF works with seed producers to obtain outdated seed, which cannot be sold on the market. However, this seed is still worth the effort to plant for wildlife since germination is still very good on the seed we have obtained. The amounts available to the chapters vary each year. This seed is for wildlife conservation plantings only and should not be directly fed to wildlife. It must be planted and the plants must be left standing until the following spring. We do require that each individual receiving the seed sign a contract agreeing to the above terms. The seed available through this program, particularly the corn, provides wild turkeys and other wildlife a great food source particularly during winter months when standing corn is available even after snow accumulates.
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