Chesapeake Natives Inc.

Chesapeake natives' mission is to propagate. Promote and protect native plants of the coastal plains and piedmont that form the chesapeake bay watershed. We aim to restore home and public landscapes and park lands in this region with local ecotype native species (lens) that best contribute to biodiversity, our best natural defense against the impacts of climate change. Local ecotypes are grown from seed with local provenance, wild seed that we seek out to gather and protect. We grow and distribute to the public a wide diversity of lens from our volunteer-powered nursery in rosaryville state park in prince george's county, md. We are resourcing and building a native plant movement, local community by local community, that is rebuilding critical native habitat to save our planet.

We continued to propagate and distribute local ecotype native plants to the public from our volunteer-powered in Rosaryville State Park. In 2023 we distributed almost 14,000 plants to more than 1,000 gardeners, community groups and institutions. We promoted local ecotype native species via events, social media, visibility gardens and other outreach methods in communities throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, In 2023, we launched our Native Demonstration Visibility Garden initiative.