Garden walk to highlight community restoration April 26

The Oak Crest Farms Re-Wild Committee will host an open garden walk to showcase its reforestation and pollinator garden projects from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 26, at 30964 Clubhouse Circle, Lewes.

Thanks to a Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control community water quality improvement grant, committee volunteers planted 11 mini-forests March 8 in a project to restore its decommissioned septic drain field. 

In an extension of the project, a group of 12 neighbors gathered March 29 to plant a pollinator demonstration garden. The weather cooperated and volunteers worked together to set out 80 pollinator-friendly plants in just under two hours. With monetary contributions from participants and guidance from the team at East Coast Garden Center, the gardeners purchased and planted three different species of milkweed and two different species of echinacea, along with liatris, agastache, bee balm and several other pollinator-friendly selections.

The Re-Wild Committee volunteers are working in collaboration with the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays to carry out the mission to improve water quality for the Inland Bays and the entire watershed area.