A grant from the science-based nonprofit Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation funded the installation last month of a “Jersey-Friendly” pollinator garden on the Ocean County College campus in Toms River. The Barnegat Bay Partnership, which is headquartered on the campus, received a pollinator habitat kit with 750 native plants from Pinelands Nursery as part of the grant award.

Ocean County Soil Conservation District, Barnegat Bay master naturalists and AmeriCorps New Jersey watershed…