Students from St. Cecilia Plant Garden

Students from St. Cecilia Plant Monarch Garden for Riverfront Butterfly Byway

We would like to thank Catherine Werner, Sustainability Director for the City of St. Louis Mayor’s Office, for sharing the following message with our office:

Thanks to a $40,000 grant award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors and ScottsMiracle-Gro, Mayor Francis Slay has launched the St. Louis Riverfront Butterfly Byway.

The 1,500 square foot portion of the Riverfront Butterfly Byway in Bellerive Park has been planted by students of St. Cecilia School & Academy and Carondelete Leadership Academy, as well as four local community groups. Over time, the Byway will be become a pollinator pathway along a 19-mile stretch of the Mississippi River in the City of St. Louis. Not only will the gardens provide important pollinator habitat consisting of native prairie plants, but they will serve for educational opportunities for residents to connect with nature and learn the importance of pollinators to our ecosystem. The effort is an expansion of Milkweeds for Monarchs: The St. Louis Butterfly Project, which aims to bolster the dwindling monarch population while better connecting people with nature.

For more information regarding this announcement, please click here or visit the City of St. Louis Sustainability Office at https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/sustainability/

 

 

Photos provided by Catherine Werner, Sustainability Director, City of St. Louis Mayor’s Office