Launching the Native Plant Propagation Project
On Earth Day 2025, the Suburban Biodiversity Conservation Center launched the Native Plant Propagation Project, an educational program to showcase the diversity of local native plants and their benefits to the biodiversity of a region.
The Native Plant Propagation Project will serve as an educational resource for the Pace University community and the public to learn about native grassland and pollinator plants. The plants will also be used for environmental science course work, labs, and research projects for pollinator insect monitoring and native plant growth monitoring.
The Conservation Center has been named one of Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation’s 2025 Pollinator Habitat Project partners. Through this partnership, Pace University received hundreds of native pollinator plants to be used throughout the Conservation Center. In addition, Hilltop Hanover Farm and Environmental Center donated 100 plant starts to the Native Plant Propagation Project.
Staff from Rockefeller State Park Preserve and local volunteers helped Pace University staff dig the planting plots for this project and in May 2025, helped plant approximately 600 native plants in the Conservation Center.
If you are interested in learning more or volunteering with the Conservation Center, reach out to Jacob Reiter at jreiter@pace.edu.
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