Twin Peaks Rotary Club in Longmont gathered 10 volunteers to create a new pollinator garden at Dicken’s Nature Farm, located between Main and Martin streets along St. Vrain Creek.
The volunteers consulted with the city of Longmont to ensure the plants were natural to the area and would attract pollinators.
The rotary members took up donations to purchase native shrubs such as chokecherry, American plum, golden currant, desert false indigo, silver buffaloberry and Wood’s rose.
Their commitment to the park and the environment doesn’t stop with one garden though. The rotary adopted Dicken’s Farm Nature Farm and cleans the St. Vrain Greenway from S. Pratt Parkway to Sunset Street.
Members of the group also have engaged in clean-up days in Downtown Longmont and around the Learning Center, its website states.
“Pollinators are essential to our food web, they ensure biodiversity and protect our ecosystems,” said the Twin Peaks Rotary in a news release.
The Longmont Rotary Club and the Twin Peak Rotary Club signed a Pollinator Resolution as part of a project called Operation Pollination. This project is part of the Rotary International’s movement to support the environment, the new release states.
