The Fellowship's New Pollinator Garden

 "It takes a village", and a Fellowship, and a pack, and a den, and a bunch of kids and adults who believe in service to the earth to plant a new garden of pollinator plants.

Approximately 30 cub scouts (who can count them, they never stop moving!), parents, members of the Fellowship, volunteers from Sister Carmen and Friends of Coal Creek plus our 3 presenters; came together for 2 hours to teach cubs and adults about mother earth.

Lafayette Cub Scout Pack 79, in appreciation of the opportunity to use the Fellowship for weekly and monthly meetings, donated $1,000.00 to purchase pollinator plants for a new garden at the Fellowship.  

Cub Scouts present the colors.

Pledge of Allegiance and the Scout Oath

Scout Master Derek Christensen gets the day's activities started with a singalong.

Parents and scouts are ready to get to work.

So many trowels!

Big thanks to Larry Arp who rototilled and raked the soil 
several times prior to planting.

     He will also install an underground irrigation system to                       automatically water the plants.

The scouts get started with help from Henry Gibb (left),
a volunteer from Sister Carmen.

Casey Lyons of "Friends of Coal Creek"
organized the plants and the planting.

Martin Ogle of Geo Sapiens did his presentation
under the gazebo in the Cove.

Several Fellowship members joined the different presentations.

4 teams of kids rotated through 4 different events:
planting, bees, mulch, Geo Sapiens.

The bee presentation by Taylor Hood
who maintains his bee hives on our property.
Stay back 10 feet folks!

 "To bee or not to bee." So many questions.

More planting by the next team.

Rutger Myers of Eco-Cycle, introduced kids to the
miraculous properties of mulch.
Who knew?

All done!  The cub scouts planted over 100 pollinator plants. in 2 hours.  They learned about Bees, Mulch, and Geo Sapiens, and how to plant stuff.  But most importantly, they got to dig in the dirt.  

The Fellowship is so grateful for this wonderful gift from
Lafayette Cub Scout Pack 79. 

Big thanks to camera shy Robyn Rathweg,
Wendie Highsmith, and Elise Eller
for all their support of this project.