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.