Get Involved

Restoration Starts in Your Backyard

An afternoon, a garden bed, or a classroom: whatever you have, it helps.

Ways to Help

Pick Your Path

Native flowering plants staged for a community planting day

Volunteer at a Planting Day

Our community planting events put native milkweed, wildflowers, and shrubs into the ground across Gloucester, Camden, Salem, and Atlantic Counties. No experience needed. We provide the plants, the tools, and the know-how. You bring the hands.

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Plant Native at Home

Every yard counts. A few square feet of milkweed, bee balm, coneflower, or cardinal flower turns your property into a link in the pollinator corridor connecting the Pinelands to the wider region. We can point you to the right plants for your site.

Ask us what to plant →

Students looking into an observation beehive during a school workshop

Bring Us to Your School

Our classroom pollinator workshops reach over 500 students a year. We cover pollinator biology, why habitat matters, and how kids can help, and we can help your school plant its own pollinator garden that hosts monarchs within one season.

Request a workshop →

Veterans Gardening Programs

Our therapeutic community gardening workshops engage veterans directly in habitat restoration, building stewardship skills, connection, and a sense of purpose through nature. Veterans and veteran organizations are always welcome.

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A community pollinator presentation for local residents

Partner as a Municipality or Business

Converting public turf or unused commercial land to native habitat creates high-visibility pollinator plantings that inspire entire neighborhoods. We work with towns and businesses across South Jersey to plan and install them.

Start a conversation →

Give or Donate Materials

Can't give time? Native plants, garden tools, bee houses, and materials all move our projects forward. And every dollar donated goes directly to programs, because we're all-volunteer.

See ways to give →

Sponsor a Honeybee Hive

Partner your business or household with a managed honeybee hive from $700 a year. We keep the bees, you get a share of the honey, and local businesses get a co-branded label on every jar.

See the program →

Sponsor a Habitat

Businesses, municipalities, and civic organizations can sponsor a full pollinator habitat installation at a school, park, or public space, with permanent signage recognizing your contribution.

Become a sponsor →

For Businesses

Commercial Sponsorship Tiers

Put your business behind the pollinators that keep New Jersey's blueberries, cranberries, and produce in business. Every tier includes recognition, and most include your own logo on jars of our honey.

Become a Sponsor
This Week, At Home

Six Things You Can Do Right Now

You don't have to wait for a planting event. Start in your own backyard:

  • Plant one native wildflower: milkweed, coneflower, or black-eyed Susan
  • Stop using pesticides and herbicides in your yard and garden
  • Set out a shallow dish of water with pebbles so bees can drink safely
  • Leave a patch of your lawn unmowed to create natural nesting habitat
  • Install a native bee house in a sunny, sheltered spot
  • Share our mission with a friend, neighbor, or your kids' school
For Veterans

This Is for You

Grasso Pollinator Alliance has a special place for veterans. Our stewardship and gardening programs are designed to be therapeutic, meaningful, and skills-building, connecting you to the land and to a community that values your contribution.

  • Hands-on habitat installation and native planting
  • Community vegetable and pollinator gardening
  • Transferable horticultural and land management skills
  • A welcoming community of like-minded conservationists
  • Meaningful service that creates lasting environmental impact

We welcome veterans at every level, from occasional volunteers to regular stewardship team members. Reach out and we'll tailor involvement to your interests and availability.

See It in Action

Education & Community Galleries

Mark Your Calendar

Pollinator Days Worth Celebrating

Apr22

Earth Day Community Planting

Volunteers install native milkweed, trees, and wildflowers at a public site in the Mays Landing / Sewell area to create a model pollinator habitat. Learn how small actions like reducing pesticide use and improving stormwater management add up.

May20

World Bee Day

A United Nations observance highlighting the vital role of bees in ecosystems and food security.

Jun22-28

National Pollinator Week

A week-long celebration of all pollinators, with activities centered on habitat protection and education.

Aug15

National Honey Bee Day

Dedicated to honey bees, their importance in agriculture, and ways to support beekeepers and conservation.

Why It Works

Small Actions, Measurable Results

Restoration works. A single native garden can support dozens of bee species.

1
Season for a new milkweed garden to host its first monarchs
500+
Students reached every year through our education programs
1000s
Of native plants installed annually across four counties
4
Counties served: Gloucester, Camden, Salem, and Atlantic

Ready to Dig In?

Tell us how you'd like to help and we'll find the right project for you. Or make a gift today and fund the next planting.

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