With a mission to encourage planting natives, avoiding pesticides, and rethinking lawn culture, the Pollinator Pathway offers individuals and communities the tools to organize and take action locally to reconnect fragmented landscapes. Learn how to join this thriving network which has as its backbone master gardeners and those of us willing to get our hands dirty.

Louise Washer is a co-founder and board member of the National Pollinator Pathway, a grassroots network of over 400 communities across 21 states and Canada working to restore and connect pollinator habitat. She heads the pesticide committee and works on state policy initiatives to restrict neonicotinoid pesticides. Louise also serves as organizer of Connecticut Pesticide Reform (CPR), president of the Norwalk River Watershed Association, and steering committee member of the Hudson to Housatonic Regional Conservation Partnership (H2H).