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Pollinator Pathway New Castle & Chappaqua

Pollinator Pathway Clinton Welcome to the Clinton Pollinator Pathway. Our goal is to establish a network of pollinator friendly habitats connecting Clinton gardens to each other, as well as to those in surrounding towns. Pollinators are essential for the reproduction of flowering plants and to sustain our agricultural crops. However habitats that support pollinators are disappearing at a rapid rate due to climate change, pesticide usage and fragmentation of natural landscapes. In Clinton, we have started a pollinator-friendly, community-wide initiative that will hopefully gain momentum through individual and organizational awareness, volunteer involvement, and Sustainable CT practices. Many native bees have a limiting flight range of one half mile, so our gardens need to "link" to provide a safe and nutritious pathway. Gardens, whether large or small, are beneficial when they include a variety of native plants, shrubs, or trees to attract and support native bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, other pollinating insects, and other wildlife. With a few simple steps you can help: Introduce native plants to your existing garden Reduce or eliminate pesticide usage Convert an area of lawn to a native plant garden Town Gardens The Hammocks Pollinator Pathway Garden The Hammocks on Long Island Sound, Clinton, CT 06413 The Hammocks is a beautiful Over Age 55 Community of upscale homes in Clinton overlooking the marshes and Long Island Sound. A forward-thinking group, consisting of the Chairman of their Landscape Committee and several of his neighbors, have transformed a common space open area into a pollinator’s paradise. Grassed borders along the roads overlooking the marshes that were previously mowed have been allowed to grow into mini meadows of native wildflowers and grasses. The area includes three defined “pocket” pollinator gardens; the first planted in 2020, the second added in 2021, and the third planted in 2022. Native plants found in the gardens are Seaside Goldenrod, Bee Balm, Black-Eyed Susan, Swamp Milkweed, Butterfly Weed, etc. In an effort to provide pollinator plants, which sustain our native birds, bees, and butterflies, The Hammocks Association has demonstrated that balance with nature can be achieved. It is an impressive blend of well-maintained properties, with the natural beauty of native plants! Girl Scouts Silver Award Pollinator Garden To satisfy the requirements for their Silver Award Project, Girl Scouts Emerson Dunning and Katrina Harris, of Troop #62191, decided to plant a Pollinator Pathway Garden on a sloped area behind the First Church Congregational in Clinton. With the guidance of Master Gardener Sherry Smith, it was decided to remove the sod to plant during the same season. The girls replaced the topsoil, added compost, and were ready to plant. After being offered several native plant options, the girls selected native pollinator plants: Mountain Mint, Coneflower, Black-Eyed Susan, Liatris, Salvia and Butterfly Weed as the backbone of the garden. Donated annuals were planted to add color in the first year. The girls were dedicated and determined; watering their new garden daily to keep ahead of the 2022 drought. The garden is now in its second year and the native plants are flourishing. It’s a job well done by the Girl Scouts – our next generation of environmental stewards! Indian River Bank Pollinator Pathway Border In an effort to create a lasting visual impression of our town, a group of energetic volunteers from the Beautification Committee, Arbor Garden Club, Conservation Committee, and several Clinton residents, worked with our civic leaders to plan and plant a Town sponsored Pollinator Pathway Garden for all to enjoy. The scenic area along the Indian River and overlooking a 1860’s arched brick railroad trestle is now a 4x70’ border filled with native pollinator plants: Yarrow, Milkweed, Penstemon, Coneflower, Liatris, Black-eyed Susan, Mountain Mint, Coneflower, and Phlox. Comments from locals and tourists have been very positive and encouraging. We are looking forward to our next Town sponsored project! Food For All Garden The Food For All Garden helps our Shoreline community by donating 100% of its fresh produce weekly to the Shoreline Food Pantry. Thanks to our pollinator friends, we grow food to nourish our neighbors in need. By converting a 70’ by 3.5’ empty border on the outside of the veggie garden to a Pollinator Pathway Garden, we now provide pollinator plants to sustain our native birds, bees, and butterflies. First Church Courtyard Pollinator Garden 55 Church Road, Clinton, CT 06413 A sunny courtyard at First Church Congregational in Clinton, CT has been redesigned to welcome church members, visitors, and pollinators to our Fellowship Hall entrance. Traditional overgrown boxwoods and non-native grasses were removed and replaced with native pollinator plants such as: Mountain Mint, Coneflower, Black-Eyed Susan, Liatris, Salvia, Tickseed Coreopsis, Butterfly Weed, Sedum, and an Annabelle Hydrangea. The area is now both beautiful and beneficial! First Church Courtyard Pollinator Garden 55 Church Road, Clinton, CT 06413 A sunny courtyard at First Church Congregational in Clinton, CT has been redesigned to welcome church members, visitors, and pollinators to our Fellowship Hall entrance. Traditional overgrown boxwoods and non-native grasses were removed and replaced with native pollinator plants such as: Mountain Mint, Coneflower, Black-Eyed Susan, Liatris, Salvia, Tickseed Coreopsis, Butterfly Weed, Sedum, and an Annabelle Hydrangea. The area is now both beautiful and beneficial! All Clinton pollinator-friendly gardeners can register their own garden online at pollinator-pathway.org where a state database is maintained and updated. Click the button below to join the Pollinator Pathway. Join The Pollinator Pathway Partner Organizations Town of Clinton, Clinton Conservation Commission For more information or to get involved, please contact Nick Webb (nwebb62@gmail.com )

Pollinator Pathway Keene

Pollinator Pathway Branford Welcome to Branford Pollinator Pathway! We've been planting for pollinators for a while, but we're just getting going on our Pollinator Pathway website. For now, please use the email below for any inquiries, and check back soon to see how our webpage develops. Pollinator Pathway Meadow at Branford Early Learning Center You can visit this Pollinator Pathway Meadow by walking along the Shoreline Greenway Trail or by parking at the Branford Early Learning Center and walking past the Community Garden to the back of the property. The meadow was planted in Fall 2021 and extended in 2022. We began by removing mugwort, then lying clear plastic down at the beginning of summer to solarize the site. We plan to add another extension in 2023. Join the Pollinator Pathway branfordpollinatorpathway@gmail.com

Pollinator Pathway Newark

Pollinator Pathway Media Media, PA Pollinator Pathway is a collaboration between Media Borough Environmental Advisory Council, Transition Town Greater Media’s Biodiversity Group, Green Wagon project, Tree Tenders, Habitat Helpers, Native Seed Library, Bird Town, Bee City, and local residents in the greater Media area. TTGM’s Biodiversity Group was formed in February, 2022. Our mission is to educate our community about the importance of planting natives, removing invasives, restoring habitat, reducing pesticide use, and protecting biodiversity and ecosystems to mitigate climate crisis. Our first project was a video about native plants. We created a brochure , a Facebook page, and tabled at various community events to offer educational material, and met with our State legislators about the mosquito spray drift issue and the need for legislation. We collaborated with Media Borough to create a pollinator garden at the borough’s Community Center. We held a very popular Ecofest event in 2023. Additional groups, projects and initiatives sprang up in the next year: Bird Town, Bee City, Green Wagon Project, Tree Tenders, Habitat Helpers, and Native Seed Library. We were fortunate to have Doug Tallamy speak at our local library to a packed audience. Current Biodiversity Group projects include an ongoing educational campaign on the negative effects of mosquito spraying and pesticide use on insects and other wildlife, collaborating with surrounding townships and boroughs, spreading the word about the need for a Rights of Nature law, offering field trips to our members, and presenting library lectures. Our blogs are published on TTGM’s website, our Facebook page, and many other online sites, as well as online and printed newspapers, a local magazine, and Nextdoor. If you would like to subscribe to our blogs, please contact us at biodiversity@ttgmPA.org . Resources · Transition Town Greater Media Biodiversity Group · Biodiversity Group Library · Protecting Biodiversity Facebook page · Green Wagon Facebook page · Our native seed library video: Gardening for Wildlife and Beauty With Native Plants · Bee City video Blogs Blogs: (more can be found at ttgmPA.org ) · Natural Mosquito Control · Protecting Biodiversity with Native Plants · Gardening in the Age of Climate Disruption · Why Keystone Native Plants? · Solutions for Insect Apocalypse · Cicada Killer Wasps: Scary-Looking But Beneficial · The Fascinating Great Black Wasp · If You Plant It They Will Come Join The Pollinator Pathway Bee City Video

Pollinator Pathway Town of Poughkeepsie The Town of Poughkeepsie Pollinator Pathway is a project of our Conservation Advisory Commission (CAC), supported by numerous stakeholders in our community including the colleges, public and private schools, environmental organizations, local legislators, our Climate Smart Task Force, parks, nurseries, and more. We are also leading a collaboration with other Dutchess County municipalities. To join, add your property to our interactive map click on the link below. Join The Pollinator Pathway Explore CAC activities at https://www.townofpoughkeepsie.com/conservation_advisory_commission/index.html Partners Town of Poughkeepsie CAC Town of Poughkeepsie Climate Smart Task Force Vassar College Vassar Environmental Cooperative Marist College Dutchess Community College Spackenkill, Arlington, Wappingers, and Hyde Park School Districts Oakwood Friends School Friends of Peach Hill Park Ralph T. Waterman Bird Club For more information email us at TOPoughkeepsiePollinators@gmail.com

Pollinator Pathway Millerton We have a community garden for pollinators and are working to promote local Municipal and yard-based gardens that use native plantings, require little water and compost input and planted species that are left to stand during winter, providing food for birds and smaller mammals. Please contact Eliot Ramos at ramoseliotday@gmail.com Partners Local Climate Smart Community task force, Local Conservation Action Committee. ramoseliotday@gmail.com

Pollinator Pathway Danbury Pollinators play a critical role in our ecosystem, fertilizing plants in our gardens and farms. They rely on a network of food sources and habitats to survive and thrive. Most insects need a food source every one to two hundred feet - the Pollinator Pathway project aims to establish appropriate pollinator-friendly habitat and food sources for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinating insects and wildlife along continuous corridors. Picture a series of stepping stones, each resting place having safe space for our pollinators to eat, drink and rest. Anyone can create a pollinator garden - a few plants in containers on a deck will provide nectar and pollen for our pollinators! Lists of appropriate plants can be found on this website: https://www.pollinator-pathway.org/plants Join us today and put your garden on the map! WCSU Garden 1 WCSU - Science Building - Danbury, CT, 06810 Garden 1 is located on the 9th ave side of the science building, by the greenhouse. The garden is composed of native flowering plants such as, Purple coneflower, Black-eyed susan, Wild bergamot, Joe pye weed, Foxglove beardtongue, and much more. MannKind Corporation 40 Taylor Road, Danbury CT 06810 Pollinator Garden with native trees, shrubs, perennials and grasses. Site is sunny, with moist well-draining soil. Garden will provide habitat for pollinators and a respite for employees. WCSU Garden 2 WCSU - Science Building - Osborne St, Danbury, CT, 06810 Garden 2 is located on the back of the science building (Osborne St), by the drop-off location. It is in a more shaded area, surrounded by maple trees. It is located at the bottom of a hill, where runoff accumulates coming from Osborne st. Native plants include, purple coneflowers, cardinal flower, Joe pye weed, and many more. Rogers Park Middle School Gardens 21 Memorial Drive, Danbury, CT, 06810 (near south parking lot) School gardens that include a vegetable, an outdoor classroom with benches framing a sunwheel and facing a native plant meadow. The sunwheel was built by students and school staff and points to the compass directions and to the solstice and equinox sunrises. Ryder House, Danbury Museum 41 Main Street, Danbury CT 06810 Native plant garden in front of the historic Ryder House at the Danbury Museum. Pollinators love the Coneflowers and Anise Hyssop during the summer, and Asters bloom wildly in autumn. Native grasses fill the spaces in between the flowering plants, keeping weeding to a minimum. DHS - Bioretention Garden 43 Clapboard Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT, 06811 - lower lot The garden started off as a bioretention pond, using river rocks to slow down and filter the runoff water coming down Clapboard Ridge Rd. The location was chosen because it is where floods often occur on the High School grounds. Native shrubs and flowers planted include, dwarf and compact inkberry, bearberry, beards tongue, and Shenandoah switch grass. Danbury Library 170 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810 Native plant garden between the library and the parking lot. The space is long and narrow, and receives early to mid-afternoon sun. Shrubs and a redbud tree are next to the building, with a curving strip of native grasses to prevent erosion. Perennials provide blooms all season long, and low-growing ground cover fill in the space next to the curb. Join The Pollinator Pathway Our Partners The Danbury Pollinator Pathway is an iniative led by Western Connecticut State University, The Danbury Garden Club, The Danbury Museum, The Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, MannKind Corporation, and The City of Danbury.

Pollinator Pathway City of Beacon Welcome to the City of Beacon Pollinator Pathway! We are a part of the larger movement to create a corridor of adjacent properties—both private and public spaces—that provides safe habitat for birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects. Our goal is to make Beacon an uninterrupted part of the pathway by increasing the number of residential, commercial, and municipal spaces that are pesticide-free and host native plants. Many residents and local organizations have taken our pledge and are incorporating native plants into their yards. These efforts can make a huge difference to our pollinator numbers and will help improve the quality of our city's air, water, and soil. We hope that you will join the fun! Partner Organizations Common Ground Farm, Beacon Farmers Market, Grean Beacon Coalition, One Nature, Beacon Elks Lodge, Beacon Hebrew Alliance, St. Joachim & St. John the Evangelist Church, the EcoNectar Facebook Group, Howland Public Library, Stony Kill Farm, Figure Ground Studio daymarblair@cityofbeacon.org

Pollinator Pathway Town of North Andover Welcome to the Town of North Andover Pollinator Pathway! Our pollinator garden was established in May of 2021 in collaboration with the North Andover Garden Club, North Andover Conservation Department staff, as well as staff from various departments at Town Hall. The North Andover Garden Club generously donated funds for the plant material for this garden. Everything planted in our garden is 100% native to New England, and requires very little maintenance. The goal of this garden is not only to beautify the front of Town Hall, but also to educate the general public on the importance of native plants.In the long term, we hope to create more of these pollinator patches in North Andover to bridge the gap between other pollinator gardens in Massachusetts. Town Gardens Town Hall Pollinator Garden urban pollinator garden! For more information, email us at: tandrews@northandoverma.gov OR northandovergardenclub@yahoo.com Join The Pollinator Pathway Our Partners The North Andover Pollinator Pathway is an initiative started by the North Andover Conservation Department and the North Andover Garden Club. For more information, email us at: tandrews@northandoverma.gov OR northandovergardenclub@yahoo.com

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