The Pollinator Pathway
Southington has joined in the establishing of pollinator-friendly habitats and food sources for bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinating insects and wildlife. Learn about Pollinator Pathways and how you can join in too!
Southington’s Pollinator Pathway is sponsored by The Southington Land Conservation Trust, in partnership with the Town of Southington Open Space Committee, Arts for a Cause Pollinator Garden, and the Orchard Valley Garden Club and is a grateful grant recipient from Constellation Energy.
How to Be Part of the Pollinator Pathway
- Plant Native Plants
- Trees, shrubs, and wildflowers native to this area provide food and shelter for local pollinators
- Plant a container or a garden with pollinator plants
- Integrate native plants into your landscape
- Remove non-native invasive plants
- Go Pesticide-Free
- This means a healthy yard for your children and pets, too.
- Landscape to minimize tick habitat
- Look into Integrated Pest Management (IPM) solutions
- Rethink Your Lawn
- Consider organic fertilizer
- Leave chopped clippings on your lawn rather than fertilize
- Covert some lawn area to native plantings
- Leave some leaves in beds for overwintering insects
- Provide clean water for pollinators and birds.
Eight native fruit-bearing shrubs were also planted near High Street, north of Center Street. Their spring flowers will benefit pollinators and the fruits, chokecherry and beach plum, will be a wonderful food source for birds.
Volunteers applied 7 yards of mulch to the planting near the Milldale Depot planting and 6 yards to the planting near the Lazy Lane parking lot.
