Alex Vaca and Cole Prichard planting a native grass at Mama Tree Farm.

In Spring of 2022, Green Valley Project Youth Council partnered with Watershed Progressive to create the Green Valley Project Pollinator Corridor. A pollinator Corridor is a network of pollinator gardens that will provide shade, food, and shelter for a variety of pollinators as they migrate through Ventura County.

Group of volunteers at the Topa Topa Elementary school planting event.

Pollinators have declined by 95% since the 1980s, so it is very important to make an effort to help them recover, especially by cause 35% of food crops rely solely on pollination to reproduce and 75% if the worlds flowering plants rely on pollination from bees, butterflies, birds and other animals to survive. We planted 4 educational community gardens for the community, 50 home pollinator gardens, and added a total of 653 California native plants to our community.

Our communications interns worked together to create a video and social media campaign to share the importance of pollinators with the community. The video and several photos of our work planting at Mama Tree farm and Topa Topa Elementary School were posted at the Museum of Agriculture in Santa Paula for the Summer.

The team also created a brochure to educate the public on the importance of pollinators to use in their canvassing initiative, where they knocked on doors asking people to plant native plants in their yard.