

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Winter Sowing at the Bent
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Event Description**: Join us for a morning of winter sowing and a PowerPoint presentation about Native Plants and their ability to support wildlife, especially pollinators and plant-eating insects, which in turn provide protein-rich food for birds and animals. Growing bird-friendly plants will attract and protect the birds you love while making your space beautiful, easy to care for, and better for the environment. 

What is winter sowing, you ask?

Winter sowing is a seed-starting technique where seeds are started outdoors in containers in late autumn or winter. The cold weather stratifies the seeds and prompts germination when the time is right. Many native perennials require stratification, a treatment that uses temperature and moisture to soften the seed coat and break seed dormancy.  

Please bring your own transparent or translucent containers with lids.  Salad clamshells work as well as gallon milk containers cut in half.  We will provide containers for those of you who don't have them.

$20.00 per person

For questions, please contact Kate Pratt at Kathleen.Pratt@audubon.org or 203-405-9113.

Handicapped parking by the barn
Accessible bathroom on site
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/southbury/winter-sowing-at-the-bent/200029301467315
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 22

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://act.audubon.org/a/winter-sowing-at-the-bent-1-17-2026?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=southbury-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Southbury
- **state**: CT
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 185 E. Flat Hill Road, Southbury, CT, United States, Connecticut 06488
- **lat**: 41.47197
- **long**: -73.25756
- **full address**: 185 E. Flat Hill Road, Southbury, CT, United States, Connecticut 06488

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Bent of the River Audubon Center (https://allevents.in/org/bent-of-the-river-audubon-center/25990696)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 17 Jan, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 185 E. Flat Hill Road, Southbury, CT, United States, Connecticut 06488
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Bent of the River Audubon Center
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Winter Sowing at the Bent ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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