Pollinator Pathway Stamford
Plant your own pollinator-friendly container with Kristy Schutzman, Horticultural Manager, Mill River Park Collaborative. Ages 18+.
FEE $50. Registration required.
Plant your own pollinator-friendly container with Kristy Schutzman, Horticultural Manager, Mill River Park Collaborative. Ages 18+.
FEE $50. Registration required.
Plant your own pollinator-friendly container with Kristy Schutzman, Horticultural Manager, Mill River Park Collaborative. Ages 18+.
FEE $50. Registration required.
Plant your own pollinator-friendly container with Kristy Schutzman, Horticultural Manager, Mill River Park Collaborative. Ages 18+.
FEE $50. Registration required.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Would you like to help with our social media a few times a month? Join our steering committee? Sign up to work on future projects with us? Do you have other skills to offer? Get in touch! PollinatorPathwayStamford@gmail.com
Welcome to Pollinator Pathway Stamford! We are helping to create a corridor of safe habitats for birds, bees, butterflies and other pollinators that extends across our city and into other towns. Our goal is to make Stamford’s private, commercial and city spaces pesticide free and safe for pollinators.
Pollinators have limits to the distances they can travel and due to urbanization and the increasing use of turf lawns and asphalt parking lots, pollinators face “food deserts”, leading to their decline. Adding native plants, trees and shrubs help pollinators because they have co-evolved together.
At least 35% of our food supply relies on pollinators for fertilization. Garden flowers, shrubs and trees depend on pollinators, too. With the alarming decline of native and honey bee colonies, a projected 40% of all insect species threatened by extinction, and the rise of toxic pesticides in lawn and insect control products, we hope to raise awareness and support sustainable practices for lawns, gardens and landscapes.
Everyone is welcome to join the Pollinator Pathway Stamford: residents, organizations, businesses, schools, and town-managed properties.
Join Pollinator Pathway Stamford
Participate
Add native pollinator plants, shrubs or trees to your property, whether yard, garden, patio or balcony. Help to eliminate widespread application of pesticides and fertilizers. Spread the word by educating friends and neighbors. Order a Pollinator Pathway Sign.
Volunteer
Help spread awareness at farmers markets and public events, create, water and maintain pollinator gardens and help manage invasive species in public parks.
Have a skill you can share with PPS? Get in touch!
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Native Garden Templates
Our friends at Aspetuck Land Trust have put together easy to follow garden plans and native hedgerow plans that will have a succession of beautiful blooms through the seasons.
How to Start a Pollinator Garden Toolkit:
How to Winter Sow
Now's a great time to start winter sowing. Learn how here. Winter sow these plants.
Control of Common Invasives
Japanese knotweed, when to cut? View the answer to this as well as the control of several other invasive plants here.
Donate
Want to Support the Pollinator Pathway Stamford but do not have time to volunteer? Help us grow by donating at one of our events or send donations to:
Pollinator Pathway Stamford
18 Tremont Ave
Stamford, CT 06906
We are a Community Group and not a 501C3 organization.
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Adult monarch enjoying Mexican sunflower nectar
A garden with just 10 milkweed plants and a mix of spring-to-fall blooming nectar flowers can provide life-saving resources. Planting wildflowers along roadsides, in community spaces, or in containers on patios helps rebuild the migratory corridor that monarchs desperately need.
Help Save the Monarch Butterflies
The iconic monarch butterfly is native to most of North America. It is the only butterfly to make a two-way migration, like birds, spanning thousands of miles and involving multiple generations over the course of a year.
In the northeast, monarchs begin to migrate south in early September when the nights are cooler. Many will make it to Florida or Mexico where they overwinter in fir trees. In February and March the overwintering monarchs begin their journey north, laying eggs on milkweed as they go. These eggs hatch into caterpillars that eat the milkweed, its exclusive host food. The milkweed sap absorbed into the caterpillar gives off a bitter taste, repelling predators.
Because monarchs rely exclusively on milkweed for their host plant (what they live on as an egg and then off of as a caterpillar) it's crucial that these resources are available in the spring. Make sure the milkweeds you select are native, not nonnative tropical plants. Over the past couple of years hot, dry conditions in the U.S. and Canada have dramatically reduced food supply for monarchs. They are now considered a species threatened with extinction.