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Hales Corners Environmental Committee
The Environmental Committee (formerly the Ecology and
Solid Waste Committee) is an advisory committee of the Village
of Hales Corners.
Hales Corners becomes the
first Bee City in the state of
Wisconsin.
We're very proud to be recognized as
the first "Bee City" in Wisconsin and
the 14th in the nation. Being a
relatively small rural community, Hales
Corners will focus on the support of
Bees as a primary pollinator in our
area. Keep Reading >>
In support of the bees and other pollinators, Hales Corners has proclamed the week of June 19th to June 25th as "POLLINATOR WEEK"
In support of the bees and other pollinators, Hales Corners has proclamed the week of June 19th to June 25th as "POLLINATOR WEEK"
Garden Initiative
The Seventh Annual Awards for the
Environmental Committee's
Gardening Initiative include the
development of habitat for Pollinators.
Nominate your friends and/or
neighbors to show that you wish to
reward their efforts to support these
vital creatures thoughout the area.
The Gardening Initiative is designed to encourage and reward participants for making the community brighter with decorative or beneficial plantings that are visible to the public passers-by. This year ...
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The Gardening Initiative is designed to encourage and reward participants for making the community brighter with decorative or beneficial plantings that are visible to the public passers-by. This year ...
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Learn How To Save Your
Trees From This Harmful Pest
Compost Tea is a Liquid Gold
fertilizer for flowers, vegetables and
houseplants. Its value is amazing, for
it acts as a very mild, organic liquid
fertilizer when added at any time of
the year. Keep Reading >>
How to Make Your Own
Compost Tea at Home
Invasive Species Need Your
Control
When non-native plants, animals, or
pathogens rapidly takes over a new location
and alter the ecosystem, we consider them
invasive species. One of the reasons that
invasive species are able to succeed is that
they often leave their predators and
competitors behind in their native
ecosystems. Without these natural checks
and balances they are able to reproduce
rapidly and out-compete native species.
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Hales Corners has been awarded a
grant of twenty-five fruit and nut trees
by the Victory Garden Initiative for
achieving all the requirements in a
recent competition called the Fruit
and Nutty 5. The Enviromental
Committee, along with several willing
community volunteers have accepted
the task and will begin caring for the
trees to establish a stonger
neighborhood community along with
the growth of fruit and nuts, thus
nurturing our basic instinct to provide
food for life.
This Orchard will go hand-in-hand with our efforts to inprove the habitat for pollinators as part of the Bee City designation. Keep Reading>>
This Orchard will go hand-in-hand with our efforts to inprove the habitat for pollinators as part of the Bee City designation. Keep Reading>>
A Garden From A Victory
Celebrate Pollinator Week June 18th to June 24th with a Pollinator Garden
June is Milkweed for Monarchs month