What is the Pollinator Pathway?

• Pesticide-free corridors of native plants that provide
  nutrition and habitat for pollinators 
• Goals: plant natives, avoid pesticides & rethink lawns

• The Fairfield Board of Selectmen passed the
  Fairfield Pollinator Pathway Resolution on 6/21/2021

How to get Involved

• Pledge to join Fairfield’s Pollinator Pathway & get on the map! 

• Proudly display your own Pollinator Pathway medallion -
  $10 for a 6" sign or $20 for a 12" sign at CT Audubon & Wild Birds Unlimited or contact us

• Fairfield is one of over 300+ towns participating in the
  Pollinator Pathway Northeast

What are the Benefits of the Pollinator Pathway?

Food

• Flowers and crops depend on pollinators

• Approximately 3 of every 4 plants relies on
  animals to pollinate

Human Health

• Clean water and air

• Promote an active lifestyle by encouraging people to go outside

• Improve physical and mental health, reduce violence, and lower the level of fear

• Help us learn better by helping concentration and reducing mental fatigue

• Trees clean air by absorbing odors and pollutant gases

• Trees save water: they slow evaporation and prevent soil erosion and flooding

• Trees cool the streets and cities by up to 10º F

• Help prevent water pollution and
  improve water quality

• Prevent erosion and buffers impact from rain

• Beautify space and increase property values

• Increase business traffic and encourage people to slow down and notice stores

• Provide valuable food and
  habitat for pollinators 
  

• Create healthy food webs

• Build a green corridor for biodiversity

Recent Projects:

• The Board of Realtors Pollinator Pathway Pocket Park
  on Burroughs Road

• The Rockland Park Natives Planting Project in the
  traffic triangle at Rockland Road and Wilson Street
  in partnership with the Board of Realtors
  & Mill River Wetland Committee

In Progress:

• Eagle Scout Project at Lake Mohegan

• Walter Fitzgerald Alternative High School Campus
  Garden & Erosion Control Native Plant Installations

• Scout Troops & Operation Hope Collaboration

• Fairfield Woods Library Pocket Garden & Programming

 Completed Projects:

 List of public gardens

• Burr Garden

• Burroughs Road

• Community Theatre Plaza

• CT Audubon Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary

• CT Audubon Larsen Sanctuary

• Fairfield Warde High School

• Greenfield Hill Congregational Church
  Memorial Garden

• Holland Hill Elementary School

• Mill Hollow Park

• Oaklawn Cemetery & Arboretum

• Osborn Hill Elementary School

• Smith-Richardson Clubhouse

• Rockland Park

• Town Hall Green

Current Initiatives

• Pollineighbor program which highlights pollinator gardens in Fairfielders’ yards.

• Plant a Native Tree in Your Yard with our Right Tree Right Place brochure to spread the word about the Pollinator Pathway and bring the community together. 

• Meet our Local Lorax, Ryan Romeo, a 6th grader here in town

More Resources:

• Garden template of various habitats
• Pollinator Pathway NE

• CT Audubon

• Aspetuck Land Trust

• Xerces Society

• CT DEEP Pollinators in CT

• Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group

• CT Botanical Society

Landscaping tips

Organic gardening tips

• Pesticide flyer from PPNE

• My Garden of a Thousand Bees

• Art Installation in the UK

Contact us: 
Forestry@Fairfieldct.org
(203) 701-8342