Greenwood School District to Receive Grant for Imperiled Insect Pollinators and Monarch Butterflies
Wednesday, February 20th, 2019 -- 9:49 AM
(Wisconsin Ag Connection) -A dozen Wisconsin schools have been awarded grants to establish habitat for imperiled insect pollinators and monarch butterflies.The pollinator habitat grants were awarded to Wisconsin agricultural and science educators by Sand County Foundation, We Energies Foundation, Syngenta, Bayer Crop Science, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and Dairyland Power Cooperative. Each grant recipient will receive native wildflower seedlings, a training webinar and consultation, and a $1,000 grant for the school district or FFA chapter to offset project expenses.
The Greenwood School District was one of the recipients of the grant. To qualify for the grants, the schools needed greenhouses or suitable indoor growing areas to raise the nearly 600 seedlings of milkweed, prairie blazing star, wild bergamot, and other species they will receive in March. They were also required to identify a rural area where they will transplant these native wildflowers in the spring, and tend to them through the summer.
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