The Pollinator Boardwalk

After more than 10 months, Historic Green volunteers finalized the Boardwalk for the Bees for MO Hives KC, a community garden & apiary in Kansas City’s Blue Hills Neighborhood. MO Hives is a thriving space - featuring multiple active beehives, raised beds for gardening, an outdoor kitchen space to demonstrate healthy cooking techniques & recipes, and a pollinator ‘prairie’ space that features native flowers & grasses that supply pollen for the bees. MO Hives wanted a walkway so visitors could experience the pollinator plants up close & personal - a rope bridge for kids will be added later.

Historic Green project leaders & a steady stream of volunteers poured concrete for footers, framed the boardwalk, laid the treads & added rope railings. The boardwalk is ADA-compliant (for wheelchairs). After nearly a year - and working across four seasons - we completed this signature feature for MO Hives.

Thanks to landscape architect Chad Weinand for contributing the design. Thanks to our University of Kansas EWB volunteers as well as those from MO Hives & neighbor Eddie Ellision. And a very special thank you to long-time Historic Green volunteer Elliot Kane for leading this construction project w/ his expert carpentry skills.