Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Parnership helps people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Their signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides, which this page will help you to get started with in your community.
The ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States and Canada. You can find out which ecoregion you live in simply by entering your zip code / postal code at http://pollinator.org/guides and get your free guide tailored to the pollinators in your region. You can find lists of plant names that will attract pollinators and help you build a beautiful pollinator habitat! Print these lists and bring them to your local native plant, garden center or nursery and then get a group together and get planting!
Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Parnership helps people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Their signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides, which this page will help you to get started with in your community.
The ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States and Canada. You can find out which ecoregion you live in simply by entering your zip code / postal code at http://pollinator.org/guides and get your free guide tailored to the pollinators in your region. You can find lists of plant names that will attract pollinators and help you build a beautiful pollinator habitat! Print these lists and bring them to your local native plant, garden center or nursery and then get a group together and get planting!
Hi everyone,
Thank you to everyone who was able to make tonight's meeting. If you erect able to attend, here is the gist of what was discussed:
1. We'd like the pollinator garden to be low-maintenance, attract a variety of pollinators, and having varied bloom cycles.
2. Due to the extensive amount of crab grass on the area, we are considering raised planting beds if some kind with larger trees/shrubs planted directly in the ground.
3. Raleigh will coordinate with Hans (community garden) and the probation center regarding land use and water access.
4. Gabby will contact the city in regards to compost/ soil
5. Garrett will look into raises beds used at another garden.
6. All members will begin compiling a list of plants they think would do well in the garden so we can begin planning what we need to buy or acquire.
7. Jonathan will follow up with Gallo Blanco regarding a donation to the project.
8. Laurie will look into nurseries who might be willing to donate or provide support.
9. Next meeting will be scheduled in a few weeks so we can begin creating a budget and design plan.
Hooray! We completed our first step of the process. We have been awarded $1260 in seed money. I'll complete the process for getting the money. Once that's done, I'll send you all a message so we can schedule a meeting and talk about our next steps. Super excited, guys!