The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced the winners of the Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant Program.
Twenty Illinois schools will receive up to $1,000 from the Illinois Schoolyard Habitat Action Grant Program, which supports the development of wildlife habitats on school grounds and public places.
Tamaroa Grade School was a grant finalist and is preparing to build a pollinator garden next to the school.
Curriculum Coordinator Erica Hicks says the school is going to build the garden around their pavilion that’s an outdoor classroom.
“We have four quadrants, one on each corner of the pavilion that we're going to plant our pollinator plants and then we'll have paths that come from each side so that you can walk through the different quadrants to see all of the flowers.”
Part of the conditions of the grant is to use native plants in Illinois.
