Wednesday, May 18
Camp Sacajawea, Lebanon Hills Regional Park
Our Turf to Pollinator Garden Project Begins!
- Wilderness in the City Update including our LCCMR funded Regional Parks Turf to Pollinator Garden Project
- Natural Resources Update for Lebanon Hills Regional Park and Buffalo Arrive in Spring Lake Park Reserve
- Pollinator & Rain Gardens by Metro Blooms our Pollinator Garden Project Partner
Hearty appetizers | Beverages available for purchase
Cost: $10 members, $15 non-members
6:30pm Doors Open | 7pm Program | 8:30 – 9pm Social
Limited seating! Early arrival recommended.
Become a member or renew your membership at the door!
- $20 Prairie Level Membership includes one drink ticket
- $50 Oak Savannah Level or above also receives a Wilderness in the City Kleen Canteen thermos cup – perfect for sipping drinks around a campfire.
Pollinator Garden Grant
Increasing Native Habitat for Pollinators – A LCCMR Grant in Partnership with Metro Blooms
Throughout the regional parks system, expansive swaths of environmentally-degrading turf provide timely opportunities to create high-quality native pollinator gardens. Our project is designed to replace up to 1/4 acres of turf in ten regional parks with native, resilient gardens to support important pollinators. These gardens will also serve to inspire and educate regional park visitors on how they can create their own pollinator gardens in their own backyards. Many pollinator insects don’t travel far so a patchwork of gardens in every neighborhood is vital. A network of them across the metro is also necessary for larger pollinator species.
In 2019 Wilderness in the City applied for a grant through the LCCMR to create ten pollinator gardens within the regional parks system with willing park agencies as partners. The gardens were planned as community projects to help inspire and educate people on how to replicate the process in their own yards, eventually resulting in a mosaic of high quality pollinator gardens across the metro.
We are excited to partner on this project with Metro Blooms. This Minneapolis based non-profit is highly respected and has a reputation for working with communities to create resilient, environmentally-supportive native gardens. We believe our collaboration will bring some beautiful and inspirational gardens along with a lot of pollinators to the metro’s regional parks.