We’re Making Trash Bloom all over the place!

This month, we brought our flagship Making Trash Bloom project (native meadows at landfills) to two new sites, planting on top of trash cells in Virginia’s Rappahannock County (pop. 7,000) and Fairfax County (pop. 1.2 million). We never pass up the opportunity for a party, so naturally, we celebrated by holding two of them!

Our Rappahannock seeding party included crowd-sourced sowing, a dinosaur, and a seeding dance set to Beyonce and choreographed by a supremely talented Mountain Vista Governor's School senior.

Meanwhile, at the I-66 Landfill in Fairfax…

…the native seed drill was busy! Pollinators-for-a-day buzzed in, full of Halloween spirit, waiting for the big sign reveal. An uproarious time was had by all, and we’re particularly proud of our own Hannah Bement, whose digital botanical illustration skills are now permanently on display.

The Rappahannock and Fairfax Making Trash Bloom projects have both been over a year in the making. We’re tremendously indebted to our on-the-ground partners at Rappahannock County and Fairfax Department of Public Works and Environmental Services, who share our vision of landfills transformed, and to our program partners, the State Arboretum of Virginia (technical expertise) and Mountain Vista Governor’s School (student scientists and boundless enthusiasm). We’re also so grateful to the local projects’ funders: for Rappahannock, the PATH Foundation and the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation; for Fairfax, the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust.

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