Why build a pollinator garden?
Pollinators like monarch butterflies are important, beautiful, and extremely vulnerable to climate change. Planting even a small pollinator garden -- even just a few milkweed or flowers -- adds to the wildlife corridors and help preserve our wonderful and critical biodiversity.
Hamilton TK-8's Pollinator Meadow & Garden
Thanks to:
- Xerces Society donating a free pollinator garden kit and 200 narrowleaf milkweed,
- the support of Hamilton's Principal Bryan Clement, and
- enthusiastic volunteers from the community,
How do I support or build pollinator gardens in my community?
Anyone can help create pollinator gardens! From planting a few plants in pots to participating in your HOA to advocate for pollinator plants to be used to landscape your neighborhood, you can make a difference.
There are many organizations providing incredible resources to projects of all size. At Hamilton TK-8, we applied for and received free pollinator plants from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit protecting our world by protecting pollinators and habitats. Thank you Xerces! Apply for your own kit here in the Spring!
Other organizations that occasionally offer free pollinators seeds and plants through grants and events in the San Francisco Bay Area include:
If you aren't able to make a pollinator garden or meadow, consider volunteering with these or other local organizations seeking to preserve our wonderful pollinators!
There are many organizations providing incredible resources to projects of all size. At Hamilton TK-8, we applied for and received free pollinator plants from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit protecting our world by protecting pollinators and habitats. Thank you Xerces! Apply for your own kit here in the Spring!
Other organizations that occasionally offer free pollinators seeds and plants through grants and events in the San Francisco Bay Area include:
- California Native Plant Society Marin (or your local chapter) -- a nonprofit that regularly hosts native plant exchanges and gives out native wildflower seed packets
- Pollinator Partnership -- a nonprofit in San Francisco whose mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Works with partners and through Project Wingspan.
- San Francisco Recreation & Park Department – Urban Agriculture Program -- The citywide Urban Agriculture Program is an interagency program that supports and supplies the infrastructure for community members to steward our urban green spaces, on both public and private land. Offers semi-annual plant giveaways and Garden Resource Days.
If you aren't able to make a pollinator garden or meadow, consider volunteering with these or other local organizations seeking to preserve our wonderful pollinators!