The Center has cooperative projects with several facilities, such as Farmingdale University and Clark Garden in New York, Atlanta Botanic Gardens and Callaway Gardens in Georgia, Dever Botanic Gardens in Colorado, and the University of North Dakota. Specialists at NWRC and some State Universities are always looking for easier ways to grow wildflowers. This program is handled through 25 plant materials centers in 22 States. The program also aims to boost forage yields and the protein diets of grazing livestock. The SCS program includes help to wildflower seed growers.
Much labor is involved in harvesting and packaging seed.
And there is a scarcity of equipment. However, in Oregon and Washington, some commercial seed growers use grain harvesting equipment adapted to gather seed. Any local SCS county office can handle inquiries. Experts there will have advice and can speed getting seed from a plant materials center. SCS's publication, Improved Plant Materials Cooperatively Released by SCS Through December 1986, lists many useful conservation cultivars of plants, including wildflowers.