Ecotype Restoration grows local-ecotype native seed and plugs in Kalamazoo County, Michigan — and installs, manages, and stands behind the plantings they become. Pollinator habitat, conservation cover, and prairie reconstruction for solar sites, working lands, and the people who design them.
Email Dave — get a quote or a spec reviewWHO WE WORK WITH
Pollinator habitat scored to Michigan's scorecard and conservation cover built to NRCS CPS 327 — supplied as seed, installed, or carried through establishment-period vegetation management. We track the ground-cover rules township by township, because that's where they actually live.
Specification support before the bid: mixes matched to soils and the CPS 327 seeding tables, bloom-period coverage that earns scorecard points, and honest seeding windows — warm-season natives in southern Michigan plant May 5 to June 30. The right spec costs less than the wrong replanting.
Expiring CRP acres, prairie plantings, and habitat on working land — mix design, site prep, drill seeding, and a plan for the establishment years nobody warns you about.
WHAT WE DO
SEED & PLUGS
Native species grown within provenance of your site, from our Kalamazoo County nursery. Dry sandy ground is our specialty — little bluestem, junegrass, and the forbs that carry a pollinator planting.
INSTALLATION
Site preparation, drill seeding, and dormant seeding, done by people who farm for a living and treat a seeding window like the deadline it is.
VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
Establishment mowing, monitoring, and stand assessment through the two to three years that decide whether a planting becomes a stand — the years most contracts forget.
CONSULTING
Mix design to NRCS CPS 327, pollinator-scorecard strategy for solar sites, seeding-window planning, and diagnosis when an existing planting isn't performing.
Dave Rayman holds a B.S. in Plant Biology and an M.B.A. from Michigan State, and runs commercial farm operations year-round. Ecotype Restoration bids what it can establish and manages what it plants — roots deeper than shoots, on the ground and in the business.
GET IN TOUCH
Sourcing native seed, pricing establishment work, or writing a spec you want to see succeed — email, and you'll hear back from the person who grows the seed.
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