Propagate Local, Native Pollinator Plants across Concord!

This program will be given by the Concord Library, Concord Land Conservation Trust, and Town Natural Resources Division. Hear about what each organization is doing to support native pollination systems. Learn about a new, cooperative effort to collect native, local seed that benefits our wild pollinators. Saved seed will be given to the Seed Lending Library and sowed seed will get planted at designated conservation properties and the new display garden at the Fowler Branch. Find out how you can get involved and sign up for a field trip where participants will learn how to collect and clean seeds, package seeds for the Seed Lending Library, and sow seeds using milk jugs.

Presenters:

Delia Kaye is Concord’s Natural Resources Director and has served in this role since 2006. She advises the Natural Resources Commission and its subcommittees on conserving and protecting Concord’s wetlands, natural resources, and agricultural lands. This includes administering and enforcing the state’s Wetlands Protection Act and the Concord Wetlands Bylaw, implementing the Open Space and Recreation Plan, monitoring conservation restrictions, coordinating land protection and stewardship efforts with local and regional preservation groups, stewardship of 1,500 acres of Town conservation land, maintaining agricultural agreements on nearly 200 acres of Town-owned lands, and support of four community gardens. In the efforts to preserve and expand native pollinator habitats, she has worked to develop pollinator gardens at Barrett’s Mill Farm and Heywood Meadow, as well as supported efforts at West Concord Park and Harrington Park.

Jane Gruba-Chevalier is the executive director of the Concord Land Conservation Trust (CLCT). The CLCT was founded in 1959 and works to conserve the natural resources of Concord and the Town’s traditional landscape of woods, meadows, and fields. Since its inception, the CLCT has acquired through gift or purchase nearly 1000 acres and holds conservation restrictions on an additional 265 acres. These lands are protected and stewarded in perpetuity by the CLCT. We connect the community to the land through membership, volunteer opportunities, and programs. Our activities are funded primarily from membership and private donations. Previously at the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust, Jane helped create the Lincoln Pollinator Action Plan, which provides a roadmap for biodiversity and climate resilience across the Town of Lincoln by rebuilding functionally diverse native ecosystems, through pollinator habitat designs and palettes that are based on scientific study.

Program partners: Concord Free Public Library, Concord Land Conservation Trust, and Concord Natural Resources Division