{"id":8984,"date":"2017-11-27T08:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science-new\/news\/planting-her-future\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T15:22:23","slug":"planting-her-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/news\/planting-her-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Her Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ask Olivia Loyack what her career plans are and she responds without hesitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to work with bees,\u201d says the Cary, N.C., native.<\/p>\n
And she\u2019s wasting no time getting started.<\/p>\n
This first-year student at NC State is busy protecting bees through the planting of pollinator-friendly gardens. She started in high school by planning and planting pollinator gardens at her house and church. Then \u2012 before she became an NC State student \u2012 she began work on a pollinator garden on campus.<\/p>\n
Downstream from Lake Raleigh on Centennial Campus, a group of students operate SOUL (Students for Organic United Living) Garden<\/a>. In October 2016, the garden flooded during Hurricane Matthew and the existing pollinator garden was destroyed.<\/p>\n Loyack jumped at the opportunity to rebuild the garden. She designed the garden\u2019s structure, selected pollinator-friendly plants and organized an August planting day with student volunteers.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest garden I\u2019ve done,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n With those plants in soil, Loyack moved on to developing a pollinator garden at Lake Johnson Park, a City of Raleigh park located near campus. As an intern with the Young Adult Leadership Project<\/a>, Loyack coordinated with City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation to select a garden site. She also organized an online fundraising campaign to finance purchase of plants and recruited student volunteers. Students helped plant the garden in mid-October, and Loyack has continued to coordinate volunteers who have weeded and watered the garden this fall.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a more intensive project. It took a lot of planning,\u201d she says. \u201cThis project made me more confident to know what I can do, what I\u2019m able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n These opportunities for real-world experience are one of the reasons Loyack chose NC State. In addition to her studies as a Biological Sciences major, she\u2019s already involved in bee-related research and hopes soon to learn more about beekeeping.<\/p>\n \u201cNC State stood out as a place that helps you,\u201d she says. \u201cThey want you to succeed and go out of their way to help you do it.\u201d<\/p>\n This post was originally published<\/a> in Sustainability News.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":" Student Olivia Loyack creates gardens to protect pollinators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"ncstate_wire","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nc-state","tag-_from-newswire-collection-21"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18692,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/18692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cals.ncsu.edu\/horticultural-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Student Olivia Loyack creates gardens to protect pollinators<\/span><\/h4>\r\n \r\n\r\nAsk Olivia Loyack what her career plans are and she responds without hesitation.\r\n\r\n\u201cI want to work with bees,\u201d says the Cary, N.C., native.\r\n\r\nAnd she\u2019s wasting no time getting started.\r\n\r\nThis first-year student at NC State is busy protecting bees through the planting of pollinator-friendly gardens. She started in high school by planning and planting pollinator gardens at her house and church. Then \u2012 before she became an NC State student \u2012 she began work on a pollinator garden on campus.\r\n\r\nDownstream from Lake Raleigh on Centennial Campus, a group of students operate SOUL (Students for Organic United Living) Garden<\/a>. In October 2016, the garden flooded during Hurricane Matthew and the existing pollinator garden was destroyed.\r\n\r\nLoyack jumped at the opportunity to rebuild the garden. She designed the garden\u2019s structure, selected pollinator-friendly plants and organized an August planting day with student volunteers.\r\n\r\n\u201cThat\u2019s the biggest garden I\u2019ve done,\u201d she says.\r\n\r\nWith those plants in soil, Loyack moved on to developing a pollinator garden at Lake Johnson Park, a City of Raleigh park located near campus. As an intern with the Young Adult Leadership Project<\/a>, Loyack coordinated with City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation to select a garden site. She also organized an online fundraising campaign to finance purchase of plants and recruited student volunteers. Students helped plant the garden in mid-October, and Loyack has continued to coordinate volunteers who have weeded and watered the garden this fall.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt was a more intensive project. It took a lot of planning,\u201d she says. \u201cThis project made me more confident to know what I can do, what I\u2019m able to do.\u201d\r\n\r\nThese opportunities for real-world experience are one of the reasons Loyack chose NC State. In addition to her studies as a Biological Sciences major, she\u2019s already involved in bee-related research and hopes soon to learn more about beekeeping.\r\n\r\n\u201cNC State stood out as a place that helps you,\u201d she says. \u201cThey want you to succeed and go out of their way to help you do it.\u201d"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"