Julie Parker-Dickerson joins our morning meeting to discuss public areas that can be transformed with pollinator gardens
This morning's rotary meeting focused around getting ready for our largest fundraiser of the year, Pie for Breakfast - set for Saturday, March 15th from 8:00am till Noon at the Shelburne Community School. Everyone is pitching in to help out. Come and enjoy all the sweet and savory pie you can eat! Raffle tickets for a silent auction are available at the door.
We also heard from Julie Parker-Dickerson who discussed her work throughout our communities in Hinesburg and Charlotte. Working to both beautify areas around town that may have been forgotten along our rural landscapes and roadsides. Julie is an elementary school teacher and wanted to find additional ways to give back to our beautiful state and world so she decided to turn small areas into pollinator gardens (her website is Pollinator Pathways). What is a Pollinator Pathway? Public and private pesticide-free corridors of native plants that provide nutrition and habitat for pollinating insects and birds. Julie just set out each day to make a difference working to turn around climate change one day at a time and the idea caught on... She now works with many locals to transform areas into pollinator pathways; places along the road or near a public building, for example check out the corner of Monkton Road and Church Street, Monkton Central School, Russel Library. There are all kinds of ways to help out just look up Pollinator Pathways.