Love Your Block Grant - Pollinator Garden Planting
For immediate release:
August 18, 2023
Pollinator Garden Planting
KNOX & HBSC
Unplanted pollinator garden
KNOX will join Stowe Center Garden Volunteers to plant the pollinator garden on Wednesday, August 23rd.
The new pollinator garden will have native plants for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.
Remember that the first year a new garden sleeps, but the second year it creeps, and the third year it leaps!
HARTFORD, CT – The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is pleased to announce the final installment of our community work on Harriet’s Backyard with KNOX. Thanks to our lead Garden Volunteer and Stowe Center Board member, Leora Berns, the bed for the new pollinator garden has been prepared and is ready to be planted. Research has been done on native plants and pollinator attractors. Select varieties include: bee balm, black-eyed Susan, cone flowers, goldenrod, Joe Pye weed, and milkweed. The location was chosen for the ample light and shade that it receives throughout the day. The Stowe Center will plant a wide variety of plants that bloom from early Spring to late Fall. We will be planting them in clumps, rather than single plants, to help pollinators find and use the plants that are native to our region.
“Scientists are increasingly concerned about the decline of pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, moths, and bats, who are vital to a healthy ecosystem. The Stowe Center is delighted to be able to create as space for these important and hard-working creatures and to teach those who visit about this work.” Said Beth Burgess, Director of Collections and Research at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.
Pollinators are vital to our environment. They are responsible for many major food crops that are fundamental for our nutrition, such as fruits, vegetables, and nuts. In a recent survey done in 2019 by Bee Informed Partnership, beekeepers across the United States lost 40% of their colonies, which is over eight percent higher than the survey average. “We are creating a space where all are welcome to coexist and thrive, our native wildlife and plant life are included in that vision.” Remarked Karen Fisk, Executive Director of the Stowe Center.
All are invited to join us on Wednesday, August 23rd for the Pollinator Planting; KNOX will be onsite with us from 8:30a – 11:30a. Please email Christina Tom for additional details.
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is a museum, research library/archive, and program center in Hartford, Connecticut. The Stowe Center’s mission is to preserve and interpret Stowe’s Hartford home and the Center’s historic collections, promote vibrant discussion of her life and work, and inspire commitment to social justice and positive change. For general information and updates, please visit www.HarrietBeecherStoweCenter.org.
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Isabella Beecher Hooker
IsabellaHolmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.
Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.
In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.
In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.
December 2, 2019
Due to inclement weather, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is closed today, Monday, December 2.
