Larinda first connected with Garden for Wildlife as a highschooler pursuing her Girl Scout Gold Award project on pollinators. Today, as a student at the University of Illinois, she continues to follow her passion for conservation outreach, majoring in environmental science. Each year, she cultivates a vegetable garden, and invites bees and butterflies to her yard with a colorful array of pollinator friendly plants! Larinda hopes to share the joy of nature with others, rewriting "gloom and doom" climate news from an uplifting, actionable perspective.
