Central Park School for Children
Durham, NC     Fall 2024    School
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We’re planning to install a monarch conservation station/pollinator garden. If we’re able to get butterfly weed to thrive, then it will be a monarch conservation station; if not, it will be a pollinator garden. We’re inviting classrooms and families to propagate plants and create signs that say what the plant is, what classroom or family propagated them, and how the plant benefits wildlife (host, nectar, seeds, etc.) We’re inviting classes to paint stepping stones so students can get a close look at the plants without stepping on them (fingers crossed). The garden will be located right up against the fence on Foster St. where there’s lots of foot traffic and we’re inviting classes to make signage. Some have already made signs about leaving the leaves and keeping cats inside. The school also has a pond where we hope to have swamp milkweed in pots.