Annual Nomadica Mini Meadow Grant Winners

2024 Grant Winner

Eugenia Book

"I’m committed to preserving the native fauna and flora in my area and to supporting habitats for our indigenous and migrating wildlife" - Eugenia

Living on a hill in Texas adjacent to the Monarch Highway, Eugenia resides on a property mostly covered by wild cedar, juniper, and oak forest. She cleared a patch next to her house, an ideal location for a mini-meadow. It is sunny, well-drained, and protected. It has long been her dream to convert this area into a habitat with native plants, particularly to support the migrating monarchs, whose milkweed food supply has significantly dwindled in the region.

"Lots of milkweed would be wonderful, bee balm, bluebonnets, coneflowers, black eyed susan, coreopsis, flax, poppies, blanket flower, joe pye weed, and salvia. We are in the heart of the Monarch migratory corridor, and I’m concerned about the dwindling supply of wild milkweed I see every year," she wrote in her grant application.

The Monarch Highway serves as a crucial migratory route for monarch butterflies, providing a vital pathway as they journey between their breeding grounds in the north and their wintering grounds in Mexico. This mini meadow will serve as a safe haven for pollinators and migrating monarchs for years to come.

Below: Eugenia and a before picture of the soon to be mini meadow.

2023 Grant Winner

Lindbergh Community Garden

A neighborhood established and maintained native pollinator garden located in Fairfield, CT.  Follow along with their progress on Instagram @lindberghpollinators