POTSDAM – A garden of native plants with interpretative signs will be planted at the end of Ives Park near the adventure playground.
Mayor Alexandra Jacobs Wilke said that Cornell Cooperative Extension had recently secured a grant through Saint Lawrence Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management that will fund the garden installation.
Wilke made the announcement at the village board of trustees meeting Dec. 15th.
“One additional piece of good news that hadn’t yet been shared in this forum and not in the public meetings, I did want to share that the Saint Lawrence Eastern Lake Ontario Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management has a grant that was awarded to Cornell Cooperative Extension to put in native native plant demonstration gardens throughout the North Country and the village of Potsdam was selected for one of those gardens,” Wilke said.
The mayor said there was no matching funds required for the village for the work.
The garden will consist of 1000 native plants and shrubs and one local tree from Saint Lawrence Nursery, along with informational educational signage, said the mayor.
“A location for this native plant demonstration garden has been selected at the… very tip of Ives Park in an area where there’s a couple of native shrubs that have already been planted, right at the very end, sort of across from the Ice Park playscape,” Wilke said.
The mayor credited the work of Rose Rivezzi, and organizer with the Potsdam Climate Smart Community Task Force, and Erica LaFountain, Community Horticulture Educator with Cornell Cooperative Extension in St. Lawrence County, both members of the village’s native plant group which focuses on pollinator friendly plantings.
“You may recall they presented to the village board in the past and thanks to their work, Cornell Cooperative Extension felt confident that such a garden would be really successful here and would have volunteers who would be passionate about sharing information about this type of project and helping to care for it, so we appreciate their work,” Wilke said.
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