Above: Celebrate the Town’s 10 year partnership with a beecologist by touring the native garden at Breakneck Hill. (image of cropped flyer)
For ten years, a pollinator garden at Breakneck Hill has served as a “Beecology” research site for “how creating functional pollination systems can help preserve biodiversity.”
This Saturday, the Open Space Preservation Commission and Stewardship Committee are celebrating the milestone by inviting the public to tour the garden and learn about the “significant gains in populations of at-risk pollinators.
Organizers explain:
Plant-pollinator diversity is declining at an alarming rate worldwide. The continued loss of native plant-pollinator diversity poses a significant threat to the health and integrity of our terrestrial ecosystems. Freddie will show us around the Garden where Dr. Gegear has documented the success of the plantings to increase pollinator biodiversity. See firsthand how this conservation project supports at-risk bee species on Dr. Robert Gegear’s priority list!
Walk through the gardens, view the new meadow installation, and hear about the various challenges encountered. . .
[We’ll] also celebrate the many volunteers that made this garden a reality.
The event will take place on Saturday, July 12 at 10:00 am. The community is invited to meet in the parking lot next to 66 Breakneck Hill Road, near the community gardens.
You can also learn more about the garden by watching the presentation Dr. Gegear recently gave to the Ecological Landscape Alliance on “10 Years of Restoring Native Plant Pollinator Functional Diversity at Breakneck Hill” below:
