We Are CrowdFunding!

It is our goal to make our YEEP program this summer the best one yet.  Please contribute anything you can!

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the  business  of  saving  nature

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.

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Over the weekend of May 6-7, 2019, news broke about the threat of extinction of as many as 1 million animal and plant species around the world. Scientists from the UN Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services published this dire report citing man’s negative impacts on nature in every corner of the planet, including New England, and of course, Massachusetts. Pesticides and loss of habitat due to overdevelopment, overconsumption, and climate change are the culprits.

In their report and the interviews that followed, scientists warned that the worst will happen if we do nothing to help nature and to restore biodiversity (which is essential for all life). These scientists did offer a sense of hope, as long as citizens act now to save/conserve/restore the environment.  This is what we at Meadowscaping for Biodiversity (MS4B - www.meadowmaking.org) have been teaching students and adults since 2014!  Everyone can do their part, by planting native plants in their yards, business properties and public parks.

Barbara and I were quoted in Sunday’s Boston Globe. (see story attached) We are recognized for commitment to native-plant gardening and healthy youth development. We could help other organizations receive that recognition too.

MS4B Boston Globe story ​

----Jean and Barbara
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                        PLEASE donate!

HELP FUND OUR ESSENTIAL PROGRAMS

• Curriculum development 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 to build community resilience in the time of rapidly changing climate

To donate to Meadowscaping, please click on donate button 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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Why Native Plants?
​Doug Tallamy's ​"Gardening for Life." 

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

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Youth  Education

​Summer 2019 Youth Environmental Entrepreneurship Program in Cambridge and Waltham

Third year of the program coming up July-August (dates to be confirmed in April 2019).

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​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.

Click on Buy Plants above to catch a sneak peak at some of the flowers, shrubs, grasses, and ferns we'll be pre-selling soon. Call 781-209-0052 or email info@meadowmaking.org for more information. 

​We'll let you know when you can download the pre-order form (PLANT SERVICES).