Butterflyway Schools program

About the Butterflyway Schools

The Butterflyway Project is a volunteer-led movement growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies across Canada.

Over the past four years, the Butterflyway Project has helped plant butterfly-friendly pollinator patches in hundreds of schoolyards. With the help of the Kenneth M. Molson Foundation and Monarch Nation, last year representatives from 250 schools throughout Canada participated in Butterflyway Schools webinars. In the fall, we provided free wildflowers to 50 schools in five cities!

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Children attentively engage in a Butterflyway demonstration in Markham, Ontario.
Children show off their pollinator-friendly plants in Toronto, Ontario.
Richmond Secondary School students each enjoy an apple after planting a pollinator patch at their school.
Ranger Samea Barcellos hard at work with students at the Paulik Park Butterflyway planting.
Mitchell Elementary School students learn about the importance of butterflies and bees at their school's butterfly garden.
Butterflyway Ranger teacher Neill McCallum and students from A.R. MacNeill Secondary School in Richmond at the Butterflyway pollinator patch they planted on school grounds.
Teacher Mr. Neill McCallum and students from A.R. MacNeill Secondary School in Richmond sit by the Butterflyway pollinator patch they planted on school grounds.
Butterflyway Ranger teacher Kim Fedoruk leads a group of students planting a Butterflyway pollinator patch at Richmond's General Currie Elementary School.
Ranger Ronda Simpson and Ranger teacher Allison Dixon joined students at Windermere Secondary in their Butterflyway Garden planting party.
Students at Daniel Woodward Elementary School planted a butterfly garden in their Richmond schoolyard. They nurtured and watered the patch during the long hot summer holidays, earning special recognition as a Butterflyway School.
Butterflyway Rangers in B.C. will form a citizen science group in 2019 to help identify butterfly species.
(Photo: Ginetta Peters)
Butterflyway Rangers surround their newly completed canoe planter in Royal Orchard Park in Markham, Ontario.
A Butterflyway Ranger in Markham, Ontario leads children in planting a backyard pollinator patch.

Butterflyway Schools 2021

Though we had great interest in the Butterflyway Schools pilot project in 2020, this year we will only be able to provide wildflowers to schools in B.C. that joined the project last year.

We will continue to support our Butterflyway School representatives by sharing resources and hosting informational webinars this year. We hope to find additional funding to grow the Butterflyway Schools program in more communities in the future.