{"id":12520,"date":"2022-02-18T16:41:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2022-03-02T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T16:44:46","slug":"maynards-pollinator-meadow-puts-native-species-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/maynards-pollinator-meadow-puts-native-species-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Maynard\u2019s Pollinator Meadow puts native species first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When spring and summer arrive, visitors to the Pollinator Meadow in <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/communities\/maynard\/\">Maynard<\/a> will find themselves immersed in a landscape of flowers, blossoming trees, and shrubs.<\/p>\n<p>The meadow, located just behind <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/place\/artspace-maynard\/\">ArtSpace Maynard<\/a> at 63 Summer St., is also a conservation utopia for native insects and plant species that have been deemed at risk in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>But this thriving ecosystem was not always there. In 2016, the now buzzing meadow was a forgotten, rubble-strewn lot in the shadow of the former school building.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article by Grace Gilson, Globe Correspondent, on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/02\/18\/metro\/maynards-pollinator-meadow-puts-native-species-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BostonGlobe.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MaynardPollinatorMeadow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Maynard Pollinator Meadow at ArtSpace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When spring and summer arrive, visitors to the Pollinator Meadow in Maynard will find themselves immersed in a landscape of flowers, blossoming trees, and shrubs. The meadow, located just behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"website_url":"","vw_url":"","location":"","slider":false,"select_experience":false,"select_topic":false,"select_theme":false,"select_location":false,"select_audience":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12524,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12520\/revisions\/12524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsway.org\/staging\/6553\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}