Poly Prep High School Juniors in Cadman Plaza Park!

Happy first day of school to Poly Prep High School Juniors in Cadman Plaza Park!

The 140 student volunteers joined the Cadman Park Conservancy and NYC Parks Gardeners, Anil Chandrakumar  and Jessica Kulig for a  community service day in Cadman Plaza Park as their first day of school.  The students planted 500 native plants in our pollinator garden starting on the most northwest end of the park.  The native plants the students planted were Black-eyed Susans, BeeBalm, Mountain Mint, Echinacea, Butterfly Bushes and Rose Mallow. We are extremely grateful for the tremendous contribution the student volunteers made by planting native plants in the progression of our pollinator garden.  Although we had an unanticipated heat wave, the students maintained their vibrancy, active, unfazed and happy to be together.  It was a joy for us to participate. Special thanks to all of the student volunteers, Poly Prep teachers, staff and parent volunteers for helping to make this planting event a success! A very special thanks to The Service Collective’s Amanda Jones for connecting Poly Prep with the Cadman Park Conservancy for this day of community service.

NYC Parks Gardener II/ Horticulturalist Anil Chandrakumar arranged for the native plants from the Parks Department be delivered on site, and he enlisted his Tuesday Promenade volunteer gardening group to come prepare the pollinator garden for this major planting by performing a tremendous amount of weeding, making the areas for planting clearly visible for the students.  The Conservancy is grateful for the help of this amazing gardening group,  for their dedication for horticulture and the preparation of the pollinator garden that really made this a successful planting event.  We couldn’t have done it without you!