If you live in the Fairview area and use the Cummings Lake Trail system, you might have seen some work happening near the Grant Notley memorial bench in recent weeks.
The Fairview Pollinator Garden is in the midst of construction and set to be complete by Fall 2021 and is being supported by the Fairview Agricultural Society.
It will not be a typical, perfectly manicured garden. It will incorporate many native plant species for pollinators and will have a “Pollinator Hotel” as the focal point of the garden.
Kamie Currie with the Fairview Pollinator Garden says when people hear pollinator, they usually think bees.”It’s more than bees; it’s butterflies, beetles and other insects also including the honeybee.” Currie says this project is a small piece to a larger puzzle for the dying habitat of pollinators.
When completed the site will be a new learning tool for schools in the area as well as for the community. The garden is expected to have signage to learn about the “Pollinator Hotel” and the native plants within the space.
We spoke with the Fairview Pollinator Garden Committee’s Kamie Currie, Jamie Walker and Trevor Floreani for the Ag Show to learn more about the project.
Listen down below for the full conversation and tune into the River Country Ag Show every week day during the noon hour!
-Erika Rolling, Trending 55 Newsroom
