DC Natives Partners with City Blossoms to Bring Pollinators to DC School Gardens

DC Natives is excited to share our partnership this year with City Blossoms! DC Natives has been itching to work more with our community’s youth and schools, and are stretching our roots out by working with the experts at City Blossoms. This year DC Natives is supporting three of City Blossoms school gardens at Noyes Elementary, Johnson Hayden Middle School, and HD Cooke, by augmenting the school gardens with pollinator plants and patches.  

In the winter, DC Native’s Executive Director and Board members presented to the lead teachers establishing gardens on the importance of pollinator plants and key design principles as they began to plan their school gardens. 

The amazing educators partnering with City Blossoms, then took this information back to their classrooms and created a voting system to empower the classroom to choose the pollinator flowers they want to see in their school gardens!  

Our first planting day with City Blossoms is coming up on April 4th at 10 AM at Noyes Elementary. If you live in the area and would like to connect more deeply with DC Natives and the young people in your area, please stop by to volunteer. You can register to participate here.

City Blossoms is also supporting DC Natives in crafting a common core aligned Pre-K pollinator and native plant curriculum! We look forward to sharing this with you all next year as we continue to support the growth of future generation’s awareness and support for native plants and pollinators!