Downtown Newton is getting some newly renovated green space, as the Hutchinson Community College satellite campus continues work on a project to turn part of its property (at the corner of Broadway and Oak streets) into a pollinator garden.
“We needed to redo the landscaping of that front area and decided to do something with native Kansan plants,” said HCC Newton counselor Bev Wiebe. “When people use plants that are native to the area, they use less water — you need less resources that way — and they also provide habitat and food for native insects, which non-native plants don’t do.”
(Read more: Leavenworth Times)