Rising Tide Nursery

05/14/2026

Looking forward celebrating Spring at the Waldorf School!

03/22/2026

08/05/2025

This is going to be an amazing event!

05/20/2025

Thank you to CEC for hosting this exciting webinar. I am excited to share an example of the ground breaking the work being done in Atlantic Canada!

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🌊 🏝️ Join us for our second webinar on Nature-based Solutions: From Theory to Practice -Reducing Flood Risks in Coastal Communities!

We have a great panel of speakers, check them out👇
🌊🔵 : Kirsten Ellis, Coastal Adaptation Specialist at CB Wetlands & Environmental Specialists (CBWES) will talk about the Shippagan Gully Conservation Offsetting Project

🌊🔵 : Pilar Angélica Gómez Ruiz, Senior Researcher at the Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán will present how local communities are participating in mangrove restoration projects

🌊🔵 : Curt D. Storlazzi, Research Geologist at the United States Geological Survey will be talking about how coral reefs act as national natural infrastructure for risk reduction and on the implications for the public and private sectors

When?
📌 Thursday 22 May 2025
⏰ 2:00–3:00 PM ET

👂🗣️ The event will be available in , and (simultaneous interpretation provided)

learn more about the speakers and register here:
👉 https://www.cec.org/events/nbs-from-theory-to-practice/

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) CB Wetlands & Environmental Specialists

08/04/2022

07/19/2022

A few weeks ago, 50 plug sized pots of Spartina pectinata were shipped off to support a living shoreline project in Pictou Landing. This project aimed to restore a beach to provide coastal habitat, wave attenuation, and will allow the shoreline to respond dynamically to sea level rise in the future.

We are very happy to see our plants supporting local projects!

Photo credit: Clean Foundation.

07/15/2022

Snails and slugs have been a major pest here at the nursery! They have been deterred using copper wire, but unfortunately resulted in a roughly 40% loss of our Spartina alterniflora seedlings. As we face challenges such as this, we continue to learn and adopt best practices to be able to offer healthier plants.

Pictured here is the snails in the Blackgrass, though it didn’t seem to bother them much!

05/18/2022

Seedlings, seedlings, and more seedlings!

We have been working hard to transplant the wide variety of seedlings here at the nursery to support local projects. Over the winter we have propagated halophyte species such as:

- Smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora)
- Salt marsh hay (Spartina patens)
- Prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)
- Saltgrass (Distichlis spicata)
- Beach pea (Lathyrus japonicus)
- Sea lavendar (Limonium carolinianum)
- Black grass (Juncus gerardii)
- Sea plantain (Plantago maritima)
- Seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens)
- New York Aster (Symphyotrichum novi-belgii)
- American beach grass ( Ammophila breviligulata)
- American lyme grass (Leymus mollis)
and more!