Garden Grants

Garden Grants is sponsored by Native Plant Society of Texas. Offers grants to nature centers, schools, and educational groups in Texas to fund development of Monarch demonstration gardens or Monarch Waystations using native plants.

Garden Grants - Native Plant Society of Texas Looking for grants to help create the school garden of your dreams?

Here are several potential grant programs, including our annual Bring Back the Monarchs grants: NPSOT Bring Back the Monarchs to Texas – NPSOT awards small grants to nature centers, schools, educational groups and others to help fund development of Monarch demonstration gardens or Monarch Waystations using native plants on public sites in Texas.

NPSOT Chapter Grants – Many of our chapters offer grants for garden projects in their community. Check with your local NPSOT chapter to learn more! Other Grants for School Gardens Julia Rappaport Growing Gardeners Fund – The Julia Rappaport Growing Gardeners Fund provides $1,000 – $2,000 annually to one educator to start or expand a garden or gardening science project at their school or community.

Trees for Texans – H-E-B and Texan by Nature invite non-profits, municipalities, and civic organizations to apply for a $5,000 grant for projects that increase tree canopy, reduce the heat island effect, increase available greenspace, and beautify public spaces in Texas) Texas A&M Community Forestry Grants – Create neighborhood schoolyard forested green space by increasing tree cover to 30% on school campuses and installing nature play spaces.

Each grant provides funds for up to 8 campus transformations within a single Independent School District (ISD) and includes a forest literacy curriculum implementation component) Texas Farm Bureau Garden Grants – “Food production: here, there and everywhere! From the school garden to the farm, let Texas Farm Bureau help your students make the connection to agriculture through our Learning From the Ground Up Garden Grant program.

” Whole Kids Foundation – provides a $3,000 monetary grant to support a new or existing edible educational garden located at either a K–12 School or non-profit organization that serves children. Wild Ones – grants ranging from $100 to $500 for native plant gardens and landscaping projects throughout the United States.

The funds are designated for acquiring native plants and seeds for outdoor learning areas that engage youth (preschool to high school) directly in planning, planting and caring for native plant gardens. Bright Green Future School Grants (Austin area) – provides funding for school-based sustainability projects up to $3,000. Applications are accepted annually at the start of the school year.

NWF Monarch Heroes Program – a two-year, project-based learning program in Texas that engages and empowers students and community members to create Schoolyard Habitats in support of both the monarch butterfly and outdoor learning. This low-elevations region of Texas extends inland from the barrier islands, about 60 or so miles, and stretches from Brownsville to Louisiana. In total, it covers about 9.

5 million acres, with a high point of 150 feet in elevation. More than 1000 species of plants can be found in this region. On the southern end, species more common in Mexico (such as Sabal mexicana ) and Central America occur.

The barrier islands provide us with dune systems, and clay flats to the inland side, which have species found in these areas alone. Many plants here, such as Ipomoea pes-caprae (beach morning glory), can be found throughout tropical regions of the globe. I’ve encountered the same species on the beaches of Guam.

Once inland, vast marshes and wet prairies occur. Occasionally, oak ( Quercus fusiformis ) groves can be found. Common grasses include species of Bothriochloa, Paspalum, and Sporobolus; eastern gamagrass ( Tripsacum dactyloides ); and switchgrass ( Panicum species ).

Many rivers and creeks cut through the Gulf Prairies, and along these riparian areas various species of trees, Sabal minor , and other plants adapted to clay soils can be found.

Due to overgrazing, farming, and fire suppression, woody species such as mesquite ( Prosopis glandulosa ) and huisache ( Acacia farnesiana ), and invasive species such as chinaberry ( Melia azedarach ), Brazilian pepper ( Schinus terebinthifolius ), and Chinese tallow ( Sapium sebiferum ) have increased and displaced our native flora. Source: Wildflowers of Texas by Michael Eason