Lucile Morehouse, 14 years old, from Choctaw County, Oklahoma, has created a 4-H environmental service project to help pollinators called Lucile’s Pollinator Project. She writes grants and receives donations, creates pollinator seed packets and gives them away for free. Her project has planted 100,188 square feet of pollinator seeds in 32 different states. These seeds are native to the southern states.
Lucile has become a Global Change Ambassador, an Oklahoma 4-H Ambassador and an Oklahoma STEM Innovator. She recently became a finalist for the 2024 Environmental Change Category with the Global Youth Awards hosted in London. The event celebrated youth from 84 countries around the world. Morehouse received the award based on her work in this project.
Morehouse started this project when she was 11 years old. This is her third year of giving away pollinator seeds and educating the public through workshops about native plants, biodiversity, and agriculture. This year she is giving away 2,000 pollinator and 1,000 common milkweed seeds for monarch butterflies. Morehouse applied to the Jane Goodall Roots and Shoots grant that helped purchase the milkweed seed. She is asking for payment of the non-machinable stamp which is not covered in the fundraising.
If you would like to be a part of Lucile’s experience, follow the QR Code to her Facebook page or go to this link to fill out her Pollinator Pledge where you can order seeds: https://forms.gle/m33SQGeRb88hWwon9
“Plant a seed, grow a flower, feed a pollinator,” Lucile said. “It’s a service project to help our pollinators. Because without them our food sources would quickly disappear!”
