A family of volunteer plant native plants to attract pollinators, such as Monarch butterflies.
By NANETTE LoBIONDO GALLOWAY
VENTNOR – The city’s Green Team is seeking volunteers to clean-up and mulch the Pollinator Habitat planted last year behind the Ventnor Educational Community Complex, 400 N. Lafayette Ave. The community landscaping project will be held starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 13.
Volunteers are asked to bring their own gardening tools, such as shovels, hand shovels, rakes, pruners and gloves. Children may participate but must be accompanied by an adult.
Diane Birkbeck and Lee Widmann arranged to have a polinator garden planted on Lafayette Avenue earlier this summer.
The pollinator garden was planted in June 2022 with support from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the Rutgers Environmental Stewards Program, and includes more than 400 plants that attract Monarch butterflies and other pollinator insects.
Volunteers worked to till a 20- by 100-foot plot of land and plant the garden behind the school in the Ventnor West area, which has been preserved for open space through the State of New Jersey Green Acres program.
To volunteer, or obtain more information, email leewidman@gmail.com.
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