Keep Salado Beautiful Receives 2018 Native Garden GRant Salado Montessori School Native Pollinator Garden
Keep Texas Beautiful (KTB) has recognized Keep Salado Beautiful as one of five recipients of the 2018 Native Garden Grant. Through funding from Nissan North America, Keep Texas Beautiful will provide Keep Salado Beautiful with $800.00 and support needed to create and maintain a native plant demonstration garden. These gardens will serve as a model to educate and engage community members to grow native species in their own gardens. KTB hopes to join in the excitement generated by the fall planting season and create awareness in not only the five communities involved, but throughout Texas.
To assist with the creation of the garden, Salado has received $800 to purchase a variety of gardening materials and to support their project. KTB will also provide gardening materials including sunblock, gardening gloves and garbage bags, as well as additional training, templates and marketing support. Gardens will be completed by December 21, 2018.
Keep Salado Beautiful (KSB) partners with Salado ISD, Central Texas Master Naturalists, Bell County Master Gardeners, the Village of Salado, and many more organizations to create and maintain pocket gardens, the Salado Sculpture Garden, the Salado Habitat Initiative and run the Fall and Spring Cleanup, Adopt a Spot, and more. Keep Salado Beautiful is partnering with Salado Montessori to install the 2018 Native Demonstration Garden.
In May 2017 Salado Montessori began restoring their property to its native state, reducing or eliminating mowing, spreading wild grass and milkweed seed, and hand weeding stinging nettle out of play areas. As a non-profit, Salado Montessori relies on volunteers.
Salado Montessori’s vision is to create an inspiring native garden using native butterfly attracting flowers that will demonstrate to their greater community how we can put an end to the cultivated turf grass era, which creates food deserts for Earth’s pollinators. They want to inspire people to create beautiful yards without using fertilizers, pesticides, or cultivated turf grass.
“Our desire with this project is to demonstrate how a small patch of ground can provide beauty for people and food for small creatures, thereby inspiring our parents and the community to nurture and take pride in their own native pollinators while repairing the Earth we all share” says Alissa McClure, Founder of Salado Montessori, a 501(c)(3).
To assist with the creation of the garden, Salado has received $800 to purchase a variety of gardening materials and to support their project. KTB will also provide gardening materials including sunblock, gardening gloves and garbage bags, as well as additional training, templates and marketing support. Gardens will be completed by December 21, 2018.
Keep Salado Beautiful (KSB) partners with Salado ISD, Central Texas Master Naturalists, Bell County Master Gardeners, the Village of Salado, and many more organizations to create and maintain pocket gardens, the Salado Sculpture Garden, the Salado Habitat Initiative and run the Fall and Spring Cleanup, Adopt a Spot, and more. Keep Salado Beautiful is partnering with Salado Montessori to install the 2018 Native Demonstration Garden.
In May 2017 Salado Montessori began restoring their property to its native state, reducing or eliminating mowing, spreading wild grass and milkweed seed, and hand weeding stinging nettle out of play areas. As a non-profit, Salado Montessori relies on volunteers.
Salado Montessori’s vision is to create an inspiring native garden using native butterfly attracting flowers that will demonstrate to their greater community how we can put an end to the cultivated turf grass era, which creates food deserts for Earth’s pollinators. They want to inspire people to create beautiful yards without using fertilizers, pesticides, or cultivated turf grass.
“Our desire with this project is to demonstrate how a small patch of ground can provide beauty for people and food for small creatures, thereby inspiring our parents and the community to nurture and take pride in their own native pollinators while repairing the Earth we all share” says Alissa McClure, Founder of Salado Montessori, a 501(c)(3).