{"id":2932,"date":"2015-06-08T19:08:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/musustainabilitygardens\/?page_id=173"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:08:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T20:08:49","slug":"vip","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/gardens\/vip\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Important Pollinator (VIP) Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-7\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\nOur Very Important Pollinator (VIP) garden is located behind Career Services at 1681 5th Ave. This garden is nestled in between the vegetable beds and contains plants that are native to our region, which thrive in our climates and soils, and which help preserve and provide habitat for native bees, moths, birds, butterflies, flies, beetles and other pollinators.\n<p>Major threats to pollinators include habitat loss, degradation, non-native species, pollution, pesticides, disease and climate change. Without pollinators most flowering plants could not reproduce. One third of our food crops depend on the services of pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Very Important Pollinator\">VIP<\/abbr> Garden and was installed by the Marshall University Sustainability Department Spring of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvca.us\/districts\/gcd.cfm\">Guyan Conservation District<\/a> for their contribution of seeds to this garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/greentrail\"><span style=\"\">RETURN TO <strong>GREEN TRAIL<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-5\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/VIP-Garden-Sign-web-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-503\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/VIP-Garden-Sign-web-1-880x1024.jpg\" alt=\"VIP Garden Sign\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/IMG_1738.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-210 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/IMG_1738-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/IMG_1738-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/IMG_1738-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/IMG_1738-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/IMG_1738-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/10599119_830890333621760_6822475060625851123_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-215 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/files\/10599119_830890333621760_6822475060625851123_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Plant species of the <abbr title=\"Very Important Pollinator\">VIP<\/abbr> Garden:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)<\/li>\n<li>Bachelors Button (Centaurea cyanus)<\/li>\n<li>Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)<\/li>\n<li>Lavender Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum)<\/li>\n<li>Cosmos<\/li>\n<li>Clover (Trifolium L.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"grid grid-cols-4 gap-8\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plant species of the VIP Garden: Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) Bachelors Button (Centaurea cyanus) Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) Lavender Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) Cosmos Clover (Trifolium L.) &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2932","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6107,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2932\/revisions\/6107"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}