The Willoughby Sensory Garden will be seeking Certification as a Butterfly Garden Designee, and support all of the wildlife that lives and thrives at our campus locale. This is a focus of our garden area that will be a positive foundation for the wildlife we have, but also attract and support pollinators, necessary for our gardens. As well, educational resources will enhance our curriculum across all subject areas so that students will learn about our native wildlife and how important they all are to our ecosystem.

As a component of our diverse Sensory Garden area, native support and certified recognition will be a feather in the cap of our students (we have all grades, K-age 21) and faculty. Students who may/likely have never been introduced to the names of birds they see everyday, the fact that our gopher tortoises are even more in need of our support due to new critically endangered designation, and how much we need bees in our lives will gain an appreciation of how these creatures are necessary to us all. The other primary benefit of this component is that it will support our garden areas for pollination, as we are going to be growing edible foods!