Batesville, IN — Ripley Youth Outreach, an initiative of the Ripley County Community Foundation, received an Enbridge Grant in the amount of $10,200 to support a new project called, Pollinator Gardens and Trees for a Greener Tomorrow. The project will bring together students, community volunteers, and local business partners to install pollinator gardens and plant trees around Ripley County on Arbor Day which is April 30, 2021.
A portion of the $10,200 will provide approximately two hundred indigenous trees native to Ripley County, such as White Pine, Red Bud, Maple, Pear, and Apple. The remaining funding will be used to install three to four pollinator gardens, which will include butterfly bushes, milkweed, and flowering native trees.
Horticulturist, Dave Patterson of Patterson’s Nursery, is working with Ripley Youth Outreach to ensure that the philanthropic initiative is provided with the proper plant material needed by April 30th. Not only has Patterson provided his professional advice to guide Ripley Youth Outreach through the project, he is also going to show students how to properly install plants and trees on Arbor Day.
