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      • A Greener Tomorrow is in the Bag
      • Fishing Line Recycling
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      • MOSAICS Family Garden
      • Coolers are Cooler with Cups
      • Ban the Bottle, Try the Tap
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Carey Grove Park
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Clay Middle School
      • Tree Scouts
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Carmel pollinator garden 2014

Carmel High School Sustainable Living Club
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Students in the Carmel High School Sustainable Living Club created a pollinator garden for butterflies, bees, and birds in the CCS Plots to Plates Community Garden‘s meditation area. This garden, planted with perennial plants native to Indiana, will increase biodiversity in our area through providing a habitat for butterflies and other pollinators.

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Pollinators are an essential part of any ecosystem. Animals and insects that transfer pollen between plants help ensure fertilization, and therefore the continuation of the plant species. Pollinators are on the decline, and many populations are critically threatened. For the continued health of our ecosystems, our agriculture, and our livelihoods, we must protect and cultivate pollinators.

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Butterflies need food, sunlight, water, roosting spots, and host plants for their various stages of life. For food sources, butterflies like bright flowers with plenty of nectar. Colors such as red and purple are especially attractive to butterflies. Butterfly friendly plants usually produce clusters of brightly colored sweet-smelling flowers and include asters, daisies, butterfly bush, butterfly weed, lantana, marigolds, purple coneflowers and zinnias.

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Hummingbirds like deep tubular flowers and flowers with red, orange, and white coloration. Birds need berries and seeds, as well as safe places to bear young. Bees like white, yellow, and blue flowers that are open in the daytime and have lots of nectar, and they prefer flowers with a sweet or minty fragrance.

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Students in the CHS Sustainable Living Club helped make Carmel greener in two ways. They created their garden to provide a place for pollinating butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds to thrive, and they chose the location in the public garden and will place signs to teach the public about the importance of providing habitats for pollinators.
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There are a number of things we can do to help. 1) Plant a Pollinator Garden. 2) Build a Bee Box. 3) Avoid Pesticide Use. The US Fish and Wildlife Service website explains in detail how we can take these steps. KidsGardening.org is a great reference for small children wanting to learn about and create their own pollinator gardens.

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Caterpillars like many different plants, but especially like those within the mustard and cabbage families. Some species of caterpillars will only live on and eat one species of plant, such as monarch butterfly caterpillars and milkweed. It is important to consider all stages of the butterfly’s life cycle when planting a butterfly garden.

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Bees have been disappearing at an alarming rate and continue to vanish without a trace. Why should anyone care? Did you know that without bees, we would not have honey, apples, almonds, blueberries, cherries, avocados, cucumbers, onions, grapefruits, oranges?

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How can you help? Attract butterflies to your garden, by planting a “butterfly friendly” garden which provides the types of plants required by butterfly larvae. Understand that releasing non-native butterflies for special events, such as weddings, can be harmful to native butterfly populations. It’s worthwhile to become better educated in the effort to keep these extraordinary creatures existing among us.

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  • HOME
  • About Us
    • Overview
    • In the News
    • Awards
    • Meet Our Board
    • Annual Reports
    • Contact Us
  • Application
    • Criteria
  • Project Ideas
  • Funded Projects
    • 2021 Projects
    • 2020 Projects
    • 2019 Projects
    • 2018 Projects >
      • Helping Ninjas Help Pollinators
      • Helping Ninjas Help Garden and Compost
      • This is NOT a Plastic Bag
    • 2017 Projects >
      • UHS Bat Boxes
      • Don'f Flip It, Save It! - Water Bottles
      • River Road Habitat Restoration
    • 2016 Projects >
      • It's in the Reusable Bag
      • Plots to Plates Gardens Tour
      • Millbrook Nature Trail
      • UHS Poultry Project
      • Green Cubs Tree Planting
      • OLMC Tree Replacement
      • Woodbrook Butterfly Garden
      • Turn Up for Compost
    • 2015 Projects >
      • OPE Recycling Cubs
      • Goodbye Plastics 2
      • UHS Monarch Waystation
      • UHS Hydration Station
      • CHS Earth Fair
      • CHS NHS Event Recycling
    • 2014 Projects >
      • Girl Scout Teaches Conservation
      • Carmel Pollinator Garden
      • Trees For Future Generations
      • CHS TEDx Conference
      • UHS Campus Green Up
    • 2013 Projects >
      • CHS Teaches Conservation
      • Bug Repellent Daisies
      • Kids Against Crayon Waste- Crayon Recycling
      • UHS Community Garden
      • A Greener College Wood
      • Do Something Trees
      • No Crayon Left Behind
      • Prairie Trace Trees
      • Goodbye Plastics
      • Carmel Green Trees
      • CHS Recycled Arts Garden
      • Going Green at the CLC
    • 2012 Projects >
      • UHS Tree Hugging Trailblazers
      • Girl Scouts Bikeyard 100
      • Bat Boxes- Nature's Bug Zappers
      • CHS Green Shower Power
    • 2011 Projects >
      • Mission Recycle
      • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
      • Recycling at CHS
      • A Greener Tomorrow is in the Bag
      • Fishing Line Recycling
    • 2010 Projects >
      • MOSAICS Family Garden
      • Coolers are Cooler with Cups
      • Ban the Bottle, Try the Tap
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Carey Grove Park
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Clay Middle School
      • Tree Scouts
    • 2009 Projects >
      • River Trail Wildflower Reintroduction
      • Scouts' Reusable Shopping Bags
      • St. Christopher's Garden
      • Earth Day Tree Seedling Giveaway
      • CHS Green Lights Club
  • Impact
  • Ceremonies
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