Blue Earth Community Foundation beautifies Blue Earth yet again

The Blue Earth Community Foundation has partnered with the Faribault County Soil and Water Conservation District to create a new pollinator garden for downtown Blue Earth.

At the corner of South Main and East Sixth streets, a small plot of land has been growing green grass for a few summers now. Members of the BECF noticed the plot and made plans to create a rain garden at the location due to its heavy amount of rain it collected.

But, once Blue Earth's Main Street project was completed, the rain run off issue was resolved, giving way to an opportunity for a greater gardenscape.
Lill Robinson, pollinator park subcommittee member for BECF, says the small garden area will feature a few beautiful trees, including a maple tree, some decorative grasses, and plenty of pollinator flowers. The small space on Main Street is also going to feature a permeable paver path as well as some seating options.

Robinson says she, along with other members of the subcommittee have worked diligently with Michelle Wigern of SWCD to create a beautiful and useful landscape for the small Main Street Park.

The excavation and placement of the path will be completed by Schrader Enterprises of Wells.

The park is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2018. Robinson says the hope is to get the path completed this year, as well as tree stocks.
Flowers and trees that will be planted in the garden were actually courtesy of Blue Earth Landscape's leftover inventory after the closing of the business, which Robin son says saves the foundation quite a bit of money.

"We may even be able to sow the seed for our low mow, no mow turf, but that will be decided by the weather," said Robinson.

Courtesy of the Faribault County Register - November 2017