About

Emily Wittkop is a trained botanist from the Pacific Northwest, with a degree in Natural Resource Management and a minor in Forest Management from Oregon State University. She has spent the last ten years working as a native seed collector for a variety of agencies including a non-profit where she specialized in threatened and endangered species augmentation and prairie oak restoration. In 2021 she became the owner of Jonny Native Seed and shifted her focus to providing high quality native seed on a larger scale to private and public landowners, non-profits, and nursery producers. Her passion for species diversity and the conservation of rare plants plays a key part in influencing her approach to seed collection. Emily strives to make native plant materials more readily available to all consumers.