A new pollinator garden at Walters Park is creating buzz in Phillipsburg.

The garden project, designed to support declining populations of essential pollinators like bees and butterflies, has already fostered stronger connections among the youth team members who created it.

“It just helped our team come together and communicate better, and it’s helping the community and the wildlife,” said a program participant about why the garden has remained his favorite project. Many team members persevered through nearly-100-degree temperatures to complete the installation over the summer.

Funded by a $5,000 Youth Inclusion Initiative grant, the garden features native plants including milkweed, bee balm, coneflower, goldenrod and warm-weather grasses. Two permanent educational signs, budgeted at $5

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