 Well, one way to improve your city's look is by sprucing it up with plants. Haiti Clotter shows us how some get into the spirit of planting in the community's garden. Our mission involves art and music and community. And this is firmly in that camp of community, community building and improving our community. Downtown Bemidji is known for its vibrant scenery and the addition of fresh plants only adds to it. Several people were willing to get their hands dirty as a way to make Bemidji's downtown landscape even more beautiful. Use pretty good force. The Mississippi Headwaters Audubon Society and Headwater School of Music and the Arts held a community planting event where anyone could learn about native plants and their benefits. The space is about 170 square feet, but has a wider reach. Different birds and different other insects that will benefit from these plants. The different plants provide different resources of pollen and nectar that many of the species have co-adapted with over thousands of years. Anna Haman was there along with her son and recalls moving to her home 10 years ago and not being able to grow squash because of the lack of pollinators. Haman gained knowledge on pollinators and looks forward to applying it in her own backyard. Right now we have a lot of daisies growing there that's beautiful, but just having some more variety and some more things that the bees like would be good. More color too would be good. Other guests ranging from youth to adults put their best gardening skills to use and had a chance to install the native plants such as Pennsylvania Sedge. These are planted first because they're a cover for the more fragile plants. That's just one of the many things these planters can take away from this experience. This small section that we're impacting but the information gained and hopefully being inspired by the difference that this project can make. That's what I am hoping for and I think we're off to a good start. Nearly 30 different species went into the ground which equals to a total of 350 plants. In Bemidji, Haiti-Clauder, Lakeland News. The next community planting event will be held at the Rail River Folk School on July 27th at 2 p.m. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.