Education through Ecological Restoration – Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture

Catholic Multicultural Center sows seed for new prairie

Sign describes purpose of prairie restoration adjacent to food pantry garden

Masked volunteers, socially distanced, broadcast seed

The Catholic Multicultural Center, a longtime Latino Earth Partnership collaborator, has recently sown a new prairie planting adjacent to the Emmett Schulte Garden. This Madison Area Food Pantry Garden produces harvests that are delivered to the CMC and shared via their food pantry or daily meal program.

Sign describes purpose of prairie restoration adjacent to food pantry gardenAn accompanying sign (pictured left) describes the purpose of the prairie restoration: to promote biodiversity and support native pollinators, which will also increase the productivity of the neighboring vegetable garden. Funding for this sign was made possible by grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin.

Congratulations to the CMC community for their continued work to support ecological health and human well-being through restoration!