Pollinator Garden

Help us plant a pollinator garden

As we live more fully into our Franciscan roots and care for creation, we are thrilled to announce that the FSC soon will have a pollinator garden! It will be located at the front of our building surrounding the FSC sign and will consist of native plants.  

Our vision is that this will be a space of beauty as we honor St. Francis of Assisi's legacy of radical, spiritual reverence for nature.

There are two ways for you to partner with us on this project:

1. Volunteer Planting Days
Please stay tuned for announcements on when those days will happen. We anticipate late summer or early fall. Please contact the FSC at fscenter@fspa.org if you’d like to be notified directly about planting days. 

2. Adopt-a-Plant
Our goal is to have approximately 400 native plants, and each plant costs about $5. If you’d like to contribute, you can drop off or mail a check to 920 Market St., La Crosse, WI 54610 or use our text-to-give option (text GARDEN to 608-292-2999 or scan the QR code below). Your gift is greatly appreciated!

What we plan to plant:

Wild Blue Phlox | Eastern Star Sedge | Skyblue Aster | Orange Coneflower | Purple Prairie Clover | Sweet Joe-Pye-Weed | Showy Goldenrod | Virginia Mountain Mint | Wild Bergamot | Narrowleaf Blue-Eyed Grass | New England Aster | Missouri Violet | Zigzag Goldenrod | Canada Anemone | Green-Headed Coneflower | Meadow Blazing Star | Black-Eyed Susan | Virginia Bluebells | Common Milkweed | Eastern Purple Coneflower | Sweet Crabapple | Eastern Woodland Sedge | Spotted Geranium | Butterfly Weed for Clay | Nodding Onion

Leah Jakusz, FSPA ecological assistant and WisCorps volunteer, designed our garden. She’s been an invaluable and inspirational resource as we make this project a reality.