The Rocky Mountain Gardens, a demonstration site by Missoula’s Department of Ecology and Extension, features ornamental, vegetable, native, and pollinator gardens. Visitors explore and learn practical gardening strategies that benefit wildlife and human communities.
Project Goals
- The Rocky Mountain Gardens will provide interpretive opportunities to enhance visitors’ connection with and understanding of how plants influenced the lifeways of indigenous people, ethnobotany, local agriculture, horticulture, and home gardening.
- The Rocky Mountain Gardens will provide interpretive opportunities to make connections between the garden ecosystem and the broader environment.
- The garden will increase awareness of, participation in, and support the Missoula County Department of Ecology & Extension’s mission and programs.
Project Details
- Graphic Design by Eileen Chontos
- Original Artwork by Evelyn Neel, Jason Pool, Jenah Mead and Isabel Quiram
