From Farmland to Pollinator Haven: How Horn Farm Center and the Endangered Species Coalition Are Growing Hope for Bees and Butterflies
A few miles outside of York, Pennsylvania, sits the Horn Farm Center. Over twenty years ago, the community rallied together to protect the farmland from industrial development and establish it as a place of agricultural education. Today, Horn Farm Center stewards the land and is an innovative leader in organic and regenerative farming practices.
Since 2022, Endangered Species Coalition has supported Horn Farm Center’s Ecological Gardener Training Program, providing funds for native plant material to be planted by program participants in demonstration plantings. This funding came from ESC’s Pollinator Protectors campaign, an initiative to install native habitat for pollinators nationally.
In the demonstration plantings at Horn Farm Center, the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) was abuzz with several native bee species. Monarch butterflies, an iconic species currently under review for Endangered Species Act protections, sipped from the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) blooms. Because the farming and landscaping practices are non-toxic, meaning no pesticides or herbicides are applied to plants, pollinators can safely thrive as a result of these native plantings.
Learn more about the Pollinator Protectors campaign here.
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