Pollinator Garden

At A Glance

Location: 

Alstead, New Hampshire

Primary Issue Area:

  • Environmental Health

Active since:

2019

Core volunteers:

2

Our Purpose

We are currently working with the LEAF Charter School, through a class which is focused on supporting students in adressing environmental issues. After attending this class we have found a special interest in pollinators, and their current decline. We recognized that pesticides were a very large problem for pollinators, and wanted to help in some way. LEAF Charter School's mission is to provide expanded educational opportunities through a STEM curriculum and strong partnerships with creative professionals. We wanted to take this idealology to heart, and decided come up with an idea to create a pollinator garden that will have information on ways the public can help the pollinators, and educate them on the Saving America's Pollinators Act of 2019. The Saving America's Pollinators Act is a bill that is trying to ban the use of neonicotinoids, which are a branch of pesticides that are extremely toxic for many of our native pollinators. We have been working with many local experts and community members to insure that our project is accessible to everyone.