The Florida Native Plant Society is now accepting donations for a new grant award in memory and recognition of Dan Austin and his work in ethnobotany.  The “Dan Austin Award” will be given to a student studying Florida ethnobotany. 

Each year that funds are available and there is a submission that meets the criteria for ethnobotany, FNPS will award a grant of up to $1,500 in honor of Dan Austin.

Please join us in building the reserve to offer this special award.  If you, or your FNPS chapter would like to donate to the Dan Austin Award fund, please earmark your donation as “Dan Austin Conservation”.  

The Florida Native Plant Society maintains an Endowment Research Grant program for the purpose of funding research on native plants. These are small grants ($1500 or less), awarded for a 1-year period, and intended to support research that forwards the mission of the Florida Native Plant Society…

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FNPS is seeking a contractor to provide assistance to the FNPS officers for tasks such as finding locations for meetings, distributing meeting information, and managing meeting attendance.  Click Here for Full Information.

The final schedule for the April 30 - May 7 Cuba trip to be led by the T.R.E.E. Institute is available. If you have not had the opportunity to participate in one of these FNPS sponsored trips, maybe now is the time!   Click here to down load the schedule.

If you register for this trip, please mail your application, do not email it as the organizer will be out of the country and won't get her email.  It looks like it should be a wonderful trip.

From Nature Wise TV Channel (YouTube video).  Enjoy this clip -- Nature Wise sells the complete video, and several of our chapters have purchased copies for members to enjoy.

Delivered in the Tampa Bay Times

The Tampa Bay Times Newspaper in Education program, with funding from the Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust, has produced a curriculum supplement on ornamental horticulture with Florida Native Plants for distribution to schools and with newspapers.

Topics covered in the supplement include invasive exotic plants, advantages of landscaping with natives, Florida Friendly(tm) landscape principles, garden design, growing zones, creating wildlife habitat, landscaping with wildflowers, trees, palms, and edible plants. There are lots of references for students to find more information, and suggestions for related projects and exercises that students can do.

The 16-page, tabloid-sized insert wasdelivered with the Times on Friday, Oct. 30. It will be distributed to high schools in Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties and inserted into all editions of the Tampa Bay Times.