BEE A POLLINEIGHBORJoin Fairfield's Pollinator Pathway!
What is the Pollinator Pathway?
- Pesticide-free corridors of native plants that provide nutrition and habitat for pollinators
- Goals: plant natives, avoid pesticides & rethink lawns
- The Fairfield Board of Selectmen passed the Fairfield Pollinator Pathway Resolution on 6/21/2021
- Pledge to join Fairfield’s Pollinator Pathway & get on the map!
- Proudly display your own Pollinator Pathway medallion - $12 for a 6" sign or $20 for a 12" sign at CT Audubon & Wild Birds Unlimited or contact us
- Fairfield is one of over 300+ towns participating in the Pollinator Pathway Northeast
What are the Benefits of the Pollinator Pathway?
Food
- Flowers and crops depend on pollinators
- Approximately 3 of every 4 plants relies on animals to pollinate
- Clean water and air
- Promote an active lifestyle by encouraging people to go outside
- Improve physical and mental health, reduce violence, and lower the level of fear
- Help us learn better by helping concentration and reducing mental fatigue
- Trees clean air by absorbing odors and pollutant gases
- Trees save water: they slow evaporation and prevent soil erosion and flooding
- Trees cool the streets and cities by up to 10º F
- Help prevent water pollution and improve water quality
- Prevent erosion and buffers impact from rain
- Beautify space and increase property values
- Increase business traffic and encourage people to slow down and notice stores
- Provide valuable food and habitat for pollinators
- Create healthy food webs
- Build a green corridor for biodiversity
- The Board of Realtors Pollinator Pathway Pocket Park on Burroughs Road
- The Rockland Park Natives Planting Project in the traffic triangle at Rockland Road and Wilson Street in partnership with the Board of Realtors & Mill River Wetland Committee
- Eagle Scout Project at Lake Mohegan
- Walter Fitzgerald Alternative High School Campus Garden & Erosion Control Native Plant Installations
- Scout Troops & Operation Hope Collaboration
- Fairfield Woods Library Pocket Garden & Programming
List of public gardens
- Burr Garden
- Burroughs Road
- Community Theatre Plaza
- CT Audubon Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary
- CT Audubon Larsen Sanctuary
- Fairfield Warde High School
- Greenfield Hill Congregational Church Memorial Garden
- Holland Hill Elementary School
- Mill Hollow Park
- Oaklawn Cemetery & Arboretum
- Osborn Hill Elementary School
- Smith-Richardson Clubhouse
- Rockland Park
- Town Hall Green
- Local nurseries in town are excited to promote the pollinator pathway
- Mail Order:
- eco59.com (a CT NOFA program - as native to Fairfield as you’re gonna get!)
- Wild Seed Project
- Izel Native Plants
- Prairie Moon Nursery
- Pollineighbor program which highlights pollinator gardens in Fairfielders’ yards.
- Plant a Native Tree in Your Yard with our Right Tree Right Place brochure to spread the word about the Pollinator Pathway and bring the community together.
- Meet our Local Lorax, Ryan Romeo, a 6th grader here in town
Affiliated sites
- CT Audubon
- Aspetuck Land Trust
- Xerces Society
- CT DEEP Pollinators in CT
- Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group
- CT Botanical Society
Organic gardening tips
For your enjoyment
Want to volunteer or start a project with us?
Want to help someone get started on their pollinator pathway garden?
Want to start a pollinator garden and aren’t sure how to get started?
Have a garden and want to do more?
Would you like a speaker to present to your group on the Pollinator Pathway?
Please get in touch and we’ll be glad to help.
Contact us:
Forestry@Fairfieldct.org
(203) 701-8342
