★ Armatage Neighborhood Association

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: This grant allowed them to help pollinators throughout their neighborhood while sharpening our focus on accessibility and equity. The ANA funded 14 residential pollinator and rain gardens, with priority given to seniors, renters, and low-income neighbors. The ANA also installed two native pollinator gardens on a community space at the Washburn Tot Lot in Minneapolis.

★ Bassett Creek WMC

 _{FY 2020, 2022} 

Project Summary: Through these grant 3 different community demonstration native pollinator gardens (Sunny side Pease and Prayer Garden, Jordan Area Community Council and at Liberty Healing Space) were installed creating nearly 700 sq. ft. of pollinator habitat.

A pollinator garden was also installed with the help of student, families, and staff at Loring Elementary. Metro Blooms installed a 75 sq. foot pollinator garden with 50 students, families, and 5 staff of Loring Elementary

Partner Testimonial: "We partnered with Metro Blooms to carry out a project with neighborhoods impacted by environmental injustice. They prioritize community led planning and implementation and pay residents for their time planting and supporting the project."

★ City of Boyd

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project installed 28 native pocket pollinator plantings by individual homeowners. Two community events were held, one to distribute plant kits to residents and discuss native plants, and another event to plant some of the public gardens at the sports complex.

★ City of Brooklyn Park

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: Community members and nearly 60 divers residents engaged in pollinator conservation through establishing pollinator habitat through planting native fruiting tree planting and installation of diverse native plants in communities spaces in multi-family housing complex's.

★ Carlton SWCD

 _{FY 2020, 2022} 

Project Summary: This project worked with nearly many residents, and community spaces such as the Cloquet Public library, to install nearly 45 projects the benefit the Rusty Patch Bumble Bee and other beneficial pollinating insects in Carlton County.

Project Testimonial: "The culture and natural heritage of our region is unique in that folks are more in tune with our natural resources, including our pollinators/beneficial insects , and our communities. Carlton SWCD and Carlton County is a Pollinator Powerhouse!"

★ Carnelian-Marine-St. Croix WD

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project created nearly 20 pollinator gardens on residential property in Marine on St. Croix village, in Washington County.

★ Chisago SWCD

 _{FY 2020, 2022} 

Project Summary: Nearly 40 projects were created to establish pollinator habitat on shorelines and residential properties in Chisago County.

★ Como Community Council

 _{FY 2022, 2024} 

Project Summary/Testimony: "Our project was unique in that our neighborhood is filled with both very experienced gardeners and master gardeners and also with very new gardeners. 75% of our gardens went to underrepresented groups in our community and most were new to native gardening. We matched new gardeners with experienced ones as Garden Buddies to help them in their first year(s). We also worked at Jameson/Front with a cleaned up Superfund site. This was a unique experience working with MPCA and researchers from the University of MN to make sure this site was safe not just for those working on planting and caring for the garden, but also that none of the toxins would seep through the plants to pollinators. We have an ongoing partnership with the University of MN to monitor and track the outcomes as well as experiment with soil amendments such as biochar at that site."

★ Corcoran Neighborhood Organization

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: The Corcoran Pollinator Project is a grassroots neighborhood initiative in Minneapolis that aims to increase urban biodiversity via a  crop mob  model in which neighbors help each other install new pollinator gardens with plants donated by other neighbors. We work in collaboration with  Corcoran GROWS , our neighborhood Transition Town organization. The Corcoran Pollinator Project worked with 16 residents in Phillips to provide plants and/or install gardens and another 44 in Corcoran to provide plants and/or install gardens. One project leader, Penny St. Clair, in Phillips

★ Cottonwood SWCD

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: This project worked with nearly 50 residents to install residential pollinator gardens and beneficial trees in Cottonwood and Jackson County along with providing pollinator education events.

★ Crystal Waters Project

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: See below YouTube video

Project Testimonial: "In addition to planting pollinator-friendly species, our project also stabilized shorelines, created rain gardens, and added habitat for wildlife, all while providing pockets of beauty."

★ Hamline Midway Coalition

  _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: Residents of the Frogtown and Hamline Midway neighborhoods have been working along Pierce Butler for about 6 years to enhance the roadside planting with native pollinator plants. In 2022 a dedicated group of folks from these communities, with the help of  Frogtown Green(External link)  and the  Hamline Midway Coalition , were awarded a  Lawns to Legumes demonstration grant (from the state of Minnesota)(External link)  for a 2 year effort to increase native pollinator habitat along their shared northern border of Pierce Butler Route.

★ Healthy Lake Winona

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: Nestled in the Driftless Area of the SW of Minnesota, this project worked with nearly 30 residents to install small residential pollinator gardens and meadows in the Pleasant Valley in Winona County

★ Hennepin County

  _{FY 2024} 

Project Summary: Project in process

★ Kanabec SWCD

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project worked with 6 residents to install small residential pollinator gardens and meadows in Kanabec County.

★ Kenwood Neighborhood Organization

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project worked with nearly 20 residents in the Kenwood Neighborhood of Minneapolis to installing pollinator gardens in residential spaces.

★Lac qui Parle

City of Dawson Pollinator Pathways  _{FY 2024} 

Project Summary: Project in process

★ Longfellow Community Council

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: This project worked with 22 residents in the Longfellow Community represents the Longfellow, Cooper, Howe & Hiawatha neighborhoods in Minneapolis installing 2,850 square feet of habitat.

★ Lyndale Neighborhood Association

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary/Testimony: "Pollinator Pathways Program involves both large native garden installations at community partners sites, and smaller pocket planting of the same native plants on 45 residential sites. The gardens are designed to provide small hops for food for the Rusty Patch Bumble Bee, and to include similar native plantings in each garden, as this species feeds on a diet of constancy."

★ City of Mendota Heights

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project installed 18 native pocket pollinator plantings by individual homeowners and students. 3 projects were planted by City Staff within parks and public spaces.

Project Testimony: "Resident involvement through the Lawns to Legumes Neighborhood Project proved to be one of the best ways to not only get residents involved, but educate others and gain awareness in protecting pollinators throughout the community."

★ Midtown Greenway Coalition

 _{FY 2024} 

Project Summary: The project is in progress

Project Testimony: "We are creating one of the best urban pollinator pathways in the nation, along the nation's best urban bike trail, the Midtown Greenway."

★ Prairie Island Indian Community

 _{FY 2024} 

Project Summary: This project is in progress

★ Rice SWCD

 _{FY 2020} 

Project Summary: This project worked with 21 residents in Northfield, in the Rice County to install bee lawns, pockets pollinator gardens and beneficial trees.

Project Testimony: "This program brought together urban landowners to make a real impact on pollinator habitat."

★ Scott SWCD

 _{FY 2020, 2022, 2024} 

Project Summary: This ongoing project has currently created over 40 projects creating nearly 56,600 square feet of habitat through native vegetative plant establishment including pollinator lawns and beneficial trees.

★ Sherburne SWCD

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project installed over 100,000 square feet of pollinator habitat through the planting of native vegetation and beneficial trees with a focus on Eagle Lake.

Project Testimony: "In an effort to instill lawn care best practices for homeowners, we targeted our project area around a lake with a brand new development still in the process of building houses. Not only were we hoping to reduce new lawns from being installed but to also reduce excess nutrients from entering the nearby lake. Working alongside landowners who share the same passion for increasing pollinator habitat as conservation professionals was both rewarding and encouraging, reinforcing the collective commitment that making a positive environmental impact starts at the local level."

★ St Louis, South SWCD

 _{FY 2022} 

Project Summary: This project establish over 40,000 square feet of pollinator habitat through the planting of native vegetation and beneficial trees with a focus on 8 different locations in the Midway River watershed.

★ Trust for Public Land

 _{FY 2022, 2024} 

Project Summary: This grant installed 39 projects to establish over 2,300 square feet of pollinator habitat through the planting of native vegetation and beneficial trees on school grounds and residential property in Brooklyn Center.

Project Testimony: "Our community-led design process and working with student leaders at the school to design the new schoolyard garden will create a vibrant, green community spaces that provides pollinator habitats."

★ Washington Conservation District

 _{FY 2022, 2024} 

Project Summary: This project installed over 13,000 square feet of pollinator habitat through the planting of native vegetation and beneficial trees at 19 locations in the city of Landfall and Lake St. Croix Beach.

Project Testimony: "Projects succeed when community members and leaders are involved in each step of the process, from outreach and project development through design, instillation and long-term maintenance."