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Adirondack Explorer Highlights Northwood School's Pollinator Project

Northwood School's participation in the pollinator project is highlighted in the following article.

Adirondack Explorer 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Monarch butterflies: conservation’s orange flag

Excerpt:

The Northwood School in Lake Placid also invited the Pollinator Project to help students plant a pollinator garden as part of an end-of-year educational program. Lisa Wint, an academic coach at the school, led the program to teach the students about organic and sustainable farming, including the importance of pollinators in sustainable farming.

“It was kind of the culmination of all the things that we had learned,” Wint said. “It was putting it all into practice, and getting kids’ hands dirty and leaving something on campus was sort of the lasting part of what we did.”

Full article: https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/monarch-butterflies