At an Earth Day Celebration this yr, Rockdale employees and college students joined our Horticulture staff and company volunteers within the City Studying Backyard to pot almost 2,000 perennial plugs because of a grant from the Nationwide Environmental Training Basis for increasing pollinator habitat. After rising for a number of months within the Backyard’s Quonset huts, the perennials had been moved to Irving Playground and planted by Zoo employees and board members, Groundwork employees, and group members throughout Nationwide Pollinator Week. Irving Playground largely serves the residents of the close by White Oak Townhomes, a lot of whom are college students at Rockdale.