By Christina Scheltema, At-large board member, Mamie D. Lee Community Garden
June 22-28 is national Pollinator Week. The Mamie D. Lee Community Garden is celebrating!
The garden, located along the footpath between the Ft. Totten Metro and the unit block of Gallatin Street, NE, has installed small pollinator gardens in otherwise unusable parts of the garden. You can see two such gardens from the footpath: a pocket herb garden in the southeast corner and a small pollinator garden in the southwest corner. All of the pollinator gardens are tended by members of the garden as part of their commitment to perform annual community service. For more information on the pollinator gardens, please email pollinatorgarden@mdlga.org; for information on garden plots, email info@mdlga.org.
This year’s celebration features a music playlist on Spotify, a Monarch Life Cycle Coloring activity for children, and a blog series with information on pollinators. Check out the garden website/blog and garden fence for more information.
Anyone can listen to the playlist, “Roots, Rhythms & Blooms,” to celebrate the plants, pollinators, people, and cultures that make our garden and the surrounding neighborhoods of Ft. Totten, Riggs Park, and Petworth special. The playlist features a mix of R&B, Soul, Pop, African, Afrobeat, Latino, Reggae, and feel-good classics, selected to reflect the garden’s diversity, joy, and sense of community.
You can listen to the playlist here:
Next Stop...Riggs Park 