The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s 18-acre waterfront campus now includes a Monarch Butterfly Garden, sited next to the historic Mitchell House on CBMM’s Fogg’s Landing.
Julia Jester, of St. Michaels, Md. and winner of the 2015 Hannah Prize, recently received a grant to install the Monarch Butterfly Garden at CBMM.
Jester is a 2015 St. Michaels High School graduate and current CBMM summer employee, with plans to study environmental science at Stevenson University in the fall. She was presented with the $5,000 Hannah Prize by St. Michaels resident Ann Hymes for an idea promoting environmental sustainability. The award encourages eco-friendly projects in the area.
“This project means a lot to me personally,” commented Jester. “Monarch butterflies are a passion of my grandmothers, and conserving the environment is a passion of mine, so it really meshes together.”
Jester’s project is based around installing a nationally registered monarch butterfly way-station created with native plants—mainly milkweed—to aid the butterflies in their seasonal migration. Jester also plans to host an open house at the garden, and purchase educational materials about the monarchs’ migration for St. Michaels’ school libraries.
Established in 1965, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum is a world-class maritime museum, serving more than 70,000 guests each year. CBMM is the only maritime museum in the world dedicated to preserving and exploring the history, environment and people of the entire Chesapeake Bay, in a meaningful and authentic way. For more information, visit www.cbmm.org.
Pictured, from left: St. Michaels Middle and High School environmental science teacher Lauren Greer, project leader Julia Jester, George’s Green Thumb’s Rachel Sutphin, and project volunteer Joe Prettyman work in the new Monarch Butterfly Garden at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Md. The garden will be a nationally registered monarch butterfly way-station created with native plants—mainly milkweed—to aid the butterflies in their seasonal migration.
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