Kay McConnell

Kay McConnell, a member of the Guilford Garden Club, Zone VI, has shared her expertise with three Baltimore schools. At New Song Academy, an elementary school, she developed an award winning native plant garden and is writing a manual about the plants in the garden. She helped develop a conservation plan for water, energy, and native plants at the Friends School where a series of gardens have become a “eaching campus showing the progression of water through the campus and highlighting the native plants of the Chesapeake Bay area. At the Kipp School, a public charter middle school, she helped create a native garden with the Honeybee club. She inspires students to get their hands dirty and appreciate the beauty and fragility of our planet.