MEADOWSCAPING FOR BIODIVERSITY

Meadowscaping for Biodiversity

Meadowscaping for Biodiversity is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to educate youth about nature and business by planting and selling native plant species.

Through youth education and employment as well as the hard work of our dedicated team, MS4B is working to restore the landscape of Mass. to encourage biodiversity and natural order.

A story on MS4B was published in the local section of the August 4, 2018, Boston Sunday Globe. The Waltham News Tribune published an article in July 2018.

Why Native Plants?
Doug Tallamy's "Gardening for Life."

Part of our answer to this question is an outdoor environmental education program for students of all ages.

8-unit curriculum and fun, engaging activities
Educate citizen scientists and stewards of the Earth to try to resolve challenges to the environment and human society.
Participants repurpose monocultural turf lawn into meadows--productive, attractive ecosystems gardens with native flowers, shrubs, and grasses
Increase biodiversity, pollinator and wildlife habitat

Native plants were growing in this area before the 1500s when colonists brought other plants here. Native insects evolved with these plants and can subsist only on those specific indigenous flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees.

Youth Education

Both MS4B program areas emphasize hands-on, project-based learning in the great outdoors! And we strive to empower participants to become stewards of the Earth and to take charge of their futures.

Meadow Clubs and Camps

Specialty summer camps and after-school programs
Youth age 7 - 14 learn about biodiversity, ecology, and earth stewardship
Repurpose lawn into pollinator patches and meadows
Native plants, shrubs, and grasses...and bees and butterflies

THE BUSINESS OF SAVING NATURE

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SELL NATIVE PLANTS

Buy beautiful, hardy, drought-tolerant perennial native plants from teens in YEEP to help them gain 21st century career-readiness skills and work experience. You'll increase biodiversity in your backyard and build environmental resilience in your community.

Call 781-209-0052 or email info@meadowmaking.org to set up an appointment to see the flowers.

Download the order form (PLANT SERVICES) and send with your check to: Meadowscaping for Biodiversity, c/o Barbara Passero, 174 Moody St., #244, Waltham, MA 0245

To donate to Meadowscaping, please click below. You will land on the donation page for the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund, our fiscal sponsor. Fill out the form. Under PROGRAM, choose Fiscal Sponsored Group; then type in our name MS4B in the next entry block. Finish the form. Click on DONATION Button on top right. The program will send you an automatic receipt after your pledge has been received.

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Summer 2018 Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship Program in Cambridge and Waltham

WALTHAM AND CAMBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS RETURNED this summer in the second year of the YEEP Program.

Teens age 15 - 19
Teens learn about gardening with native plants as well as how to create and run a business
College intern team leaders/ mentors guide the youth through the operation of a specialty service business
Youth sell and install native plants for residential and business customers
Youth receive an hourly wage during summer employment
Youth gain 21st Century career-readiness skills