The Butterflyway Project is a volunteer-led movement that’s bringing nature home to neighbourhoods across Canada, one butterfly-friendly planting at a time.
Since 2017, ‘Butterflyway Rangers’ have been recruited and trained to plant native wildflowers in yards, schoolyards, streets, and parks to support bees and butterflies. Their goal is to establish local “Butterflyways” in different communities by planting at least a dozen pollinator patches in each neighbourhood.
With the assistance of our local Butterflyway Ranger, Kathy Howitt, and our Healthy Communities Committee, BWG’s Public Library & Cultural Centre is supporting the Butterflyway Project in BWG and encourages residents to plant their own Butterflyway gardens. In addition to hosting their own garden, the Library will be distributing Butterflyway Garden Seed Kits which will include five species of native plants that attract butterflies and instructions for planting your own Butterflyway garden.
Butterflyway Garden Seed Kits will be available for pick up at the BWG Library while supplies last. For more information, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
To learn more about the Butterflyway Project, visit: davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/butterflyway or email our local Butterflyway Ranger, Kathy Howitt, at [email protected]
