051018 Pollenator Garden (WR)

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Jack Speer, founder and director of Small Waters Education of Harvard instructs fifth-graders in planting a pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Holly Stephenson, Aurora, instructs students on planting a pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018. Stephenson is director of Small Waters Education in Harvard.

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Morgan Cassidy, a fifth-grader, prepares to plant in the pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Fifth-grade classmates (from left) Roberto Tapia, Gabriel Serrano and Jack Vidales work together in the pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Director of Small Waters Education Holly Stephenson demonstrates how deep to place a plant into the soil at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Fifth-grader Alejandro Alanis listens to instructions on planting in the pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Jack Speer, Harvard, describes the process of planting and maintaining a pollinator garden to fifth-graders at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018. Speer and his wife, Judy Speer, are the founders and directors of Small Waters Education, a nonprofit that teaches sustainable living practices and ecological restoration.

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Morgan Cassidy, a fifth-grader, waters a newly placed plant at the pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Jaslyn Gonzalez, a fifth-grader at Westwood Elementary, smiles before preparing to transfer a plant into the ground in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.

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Fifth-grader Alejandro Alanis digs in the soil of the pollinator garden at Westwood Elementary School in Woodstock Thursday, May 10, 2018.