Welcome!

 

Ozark Ecotypes Plant Nursery, created under the umbrella of Brenda Sharp Native Ecotypes, LLC and headquartered in Boone County is an Arkansas Department of Agriculture inspected and licensed nursery specializing in cultivating native plants and ecotype materials rooted in a rich heritage of the Ozark bioregion and southeastern United States.

 

The nursery offers a diverse selection of native perennial wildflowers and grasses that create health in any landscape large or small, while supporting wildlife, building topsoil, and purifying water.

The focus is on raising and distributing keystone and host genera essential for sustaining

the lives of local and migratory pollinators that are vital to the entire food web.

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By people planting local ecotypes, this ensures genetic compatibility with the surrounding environment while enhancing ecosystem resilience and biodiversity. Native plants are adapted to local soils, climate, and conditions that persist through frost and drought, and require little maintenance, and do not require fertilizer. Once the plants are established,

they require little but love. 

 

The guiding principle is purpose-driven, rooted in reverence---for the Creator as the source of all restoration, who uses nature as a vessel to deliver healing medicine. This work serves all generations, helping them reconnect with the land's original balance and safeguarding the vibrant biodiversity of the Ozark bioregion. ​

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​​​​"We are at a critical point of losing so many species from local ecosystems that their ability to produce

the oxygen, clean water, flood control, pollination, pest control, carbon storage, ect, that is, 

the ecosystem services that sustain us, will become seriously compromised."

-Dr. Doug Tallamy 

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​​"If we want butterflies and bees and hummingbirds and birds, we have to give them a

place to breathe and a place to eat and a place to shelter."

-Kathleen Scott​

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"Soil is an intergenerational resource, natural capital that can be used conservatively or squandered.

With just a couple feet of soil standing between prosperity and desolation,

civilizations that plow through their soil vanish."

-David R. Montgomery

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​"The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it."

-Genesis 2:15

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