On a bright spring afternoon, a group of bubbly fifth-graders descended upon a small garden patch outside of University Park Elementary School to get pollinator plants settled in the dirt. They tipped coneflowers out of their plastic pots, wiggled their fingers through the plants’ roots to break them loose, plunged shovels and trowels into the garden bed and patted dirt back onto the native plants before giving them a cool drink of water.
