Native Plant Pick-Up Success!
Partnering with the Great Swamp Watershed Association was now only a great success but a lot of fun!
LivGreen volunteers joined GWSA at their base near Jockey Hollow and helped sort and separate their plant workshop ready for distrubution. It was a beautiful spot and a great chance to talk with other green teams and environmental commissioners and hear what actions and issues they are tackling.
Our Livingston plants were picked up the Friday before the sale. We had 24 orders and 68square feet of plug trays which is great for our first year! I can now also officially say exactly how many plants you can gently rest in footwells and every square inch of a VW Taos and Tiguan!
Brooke Kalva added some extra flair and education to our pick up event by sharing education materials she’s created as part of her native and indigenous plant research. We also opened up my garden to share what I have been attempting - will it work? watch this space.
A favorite moment was that Lisa, a member of our book club who’d joined in LivGreen’s discussion on Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, took the time to come down and explore the garden and talk with Brooke. This is exactly the kind of ‘cross-pollination’ we want to create where we can engage with our community in different places and create community connections. We met people at the sale from Roseland, South Orange, West Orange, Caldwell and Florham Park too and it’s great to hear and learn from our neighboring communities.
If anyone would like to learn more about Planting for Pollinators there are amazing resources, webinars and classes we’ve linked on our LivNative page. Prefer a human, we are always here! If you want to pop by for a neighborly cup of tea and visit my garden i’m extremly happy to share.
If you have native plants in your garden don’t forget to drop a pin on Homegrown National Park so we can show all the good work Livingston is doing to create Biodiversity and pollinator pathways. Let us know what you are doing, share photos or lessons learned and tag us in your posts!
I’ve just ordered a Terra Bioacoustic speaker, so more to come on if I can measure an increase in bird and insect activity now I have goldenrod, cardinal flower, nine bark, aster, milkweed and more growing in the yard!
