The Ingersoll Library has received a grant from the World Wildlife Fund to encourage kids and teens to get in touch with nature.
INGERSOLL - The Ingersoll Library is going wild after they received a grant of up to $1 000 from the World Wildlife Federation of Canada.
That money will be used to fund many different activities happening on the grounds of the library targeted at encouraging children to go outside and learn about nature. Branch Supervisor at the Ingersoll Public Library, Lynn Sutherland, explains one of the activities taking place is called 'guerilla gardening.' "Guerilla gardening is not maybe as subversive as it sounds. What we do is we make kids make seed bombs which are balls of soil that have native seeds in them, and then they seed bomb unused property or their own backyards in some cases." This is an attempt to encourage larvae to turn into monarch butterflies, and encourage pollinators to move into the area.
Sutherland is also excited about another way they are going to be promoting nature. "With those monarch kits we will have a plant right in the kits that we will have in the library and there will be the monarch larvae's right in there. People can come in and watch them as they come out of their cocoons."

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