Come see our pollinator garden!

The Fellowship’s pollinator garden is beginning its third year. In 2024 and again this spring, members of the Green Earth Ministry teamed up with religious education teachers and students to establish a garden of native plants supplied by the Great Swamp Watershed Association. On May 2, in just one hour, we put in 20 deep-rooted plugs and dug out dozens of dandelions.

To view the pollinator garden, enter the main parking lot and immediately turn left into the first row of parking spaces. Then, walk toward Normandy Heights Road, pass through a row of spruce trees, and stop at a large, mulched area. Flags mark the locations of the small plants.

Return to the garden in June and July to see swamp milkweed, lance-leafed coreopsis, butterfly milkweed, and pale purple cone flowers in bloom. This garden is part of a pollinator pathway, a pesticide-free corridor of native plants that provides nutrition and habitat for pollinators such as bees, butterflies, and moths.