Algiers Point Pollinators was dreamt up by Algiers Point resident, Gina Pea, noting the absence of helpful bugs in her home vegetable garden. After attempting to attract more bees & butterflies herself, she realized that her success relied on the cooperation of her neighbors to create a continuous pollinator habitat throughout their neighborhood. We hope to take what we learn here and use it as a model to bring more native plants and the pollinators they support to every neighborhood in New Orleans.

APP is a project of Messages from the Mississippi, a local non-profit who works to promote environmental education as well as a sense of responsibility & ownership towards our natural world. Algiers Point Pollinators with Messages from the Mississippi will be creating curriculum, workshops & an educator’s toolkit for teaching kids how to identify, observe & nurture our native ecosystems within an urban environment.

We’d like to thank the the Mayor’s Neighborhood Enrichment Office for providing funding & support for the Eliza Street Pollinator Corridor.

Next steps—

April 2024— the installation of a native pollinator “teaching garden” at the Algiers Behrman Community Garden & kick-off garden party

Summer 2024— educational workshops, AP Pollinator meetups, Eliza Street Pollinator Corridor recruitment & rain-barrel installation

September-October 2024— Eliza Street Corridor planting!