{"id":13468,"date":"2025-06-10T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:03:59","slug":"pollinator-garden-created-as-teaching-tool-for-area-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/connections\/pollinator-garden-created-as-teaching-tool-for-area-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollinator garden created as teaching tool for area school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/06\/SalisburySchoolGarden-0834-1024x797.jpg\" alt=\"Educational garden at Salisbury School.\" class=\"wp-image-13469\" style=\"width:301px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/06\/SalisburySchoolGarden-0834-1024x797.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/06\/SalisburySchoolGarden-0834-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/06\/SalisburySchoolGarden-0834-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/06\/SalisburySchoolGarden-0834-1536x1196.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/06\/SalisburySchoolGarden-0834-2048x1595.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Teaching youth about the importance of pollinators is the aim of a joint <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/extension\/4-h-youth-development\/\">UMES Extension<\/a> and The Salisbury School project to create an educational garden. The design features a main pollinator bed shaped like a dragon, the school\u2019s mascot, filled with native plant species to attract bees and butterflies. In planning since March, a grand opening will take place this fall to officially introduce the garden for learning experiences for Grades K-12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Salisbury School student delegates began by attending a weeklong Ignite conference in Washington, D.C., where they were \u201cemersed in 4-H and STEM activities in preparation for the project,\u201d said Theresa Maggio, UMES\u2019 lead on the project.<br><br>These students will work with about 250 younger peers during the upcoming school year through educational and hands-on experiences in the pollinator garden, she said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 4-H STEM educator also arranged for a May visit to the UMES Apiary, where Stephen Goewey taught them bee biology and beekeeping basics. The youth leaders helped install the garden May 20 with the guidance of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore\u2019s 4-H team. Building materials were funded through a $15,000 grant from Corteva Agriscience. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gail Stephens, agricultural communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension, <\/em><a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\"><em>gcstephens@umes.edu<\/em><\/a><em>, 410-621-3850.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photos<\/em> <em>submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching youth about the importance of pollinators is the aim of a joint UMES Extension and The Salisbury School project to create an educational garden. The design features a main pollinator bed shaped like a dragon, the school\u2019s mascot, filled with native plant species to attract bees and butterflies. In planning since March, a grand&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/connections\/pollinator-garden-created-as-teaching-tool-for-area-school\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Pollinator garden created as teaching tool for area school<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":45,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,162],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-june-2025-connections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}