Monona Butterfly Gardens and Trail receive community endowment

It’s hard to believe, a volunteer community garden project started as part of Earth Year 2000, is still going and growing. As part of the 15th anniversary of the Monona Butterfly Gardens and Trail, the committee of volunteers that have been caring for it decided to create an endowment to make sure that there would be a continuing funding source for some of the operations and maintenance. It was fully funded by January 2015 which meant this year, 2016, the committee would reap it first benefits. This first check of $470 from the Monona Butterfly Gardens and Trail Endowment was written by the Clayton County Foundation for the Future. It will be used to purchase perennials plants to replace some that have died, to replace memorial plants that have just not worked in the areas they were planted and fill in other areas. These perennial plants will help decrease the volunteer time needed to maintain the gardens as well as provide blooming flowers throughout the season. The remainder will be used maintain benches, tables, gazebos and bridges and as matching funds for grants awarded to the committee.

Read more in the Wednesday, April 6, 2016 edition of The Outlook.