![(PHOTO: Bonnie Council and Michelle New planting a pollinator garden in front of the Meeting House on April 13, 2024.)](https://myrye.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PXL_20240413_131150355.MP_-769x1024.jpg)
The Bird Homestead & Meeting House had 27 volunteers show up on Saturday, April 13th as part of a Town of Rye / City of Rye community clean up day. The non-profit run park and historical site on Milton Road received a clean up and new pollinator garden.
Take a look:
![(PHOTO: Bird Homestead and Meeting House Conservancy Board Member Doug Carey removing invasive wisteria around the 100-year-old Concord grape vine on the Bird property on April 13, 2024.)](https://myrye.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PXL_20240413_144008925.MP_-769x1024.jpg)
![(PHOTO: Melinda Stein removing invasives at the Bird Homestead & Meeting House Conservancy on April 13, 2024.)](https://myrye.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PXL_20240413_143949648.MP_-769x1024.jpg)
![(PHOTO: Rye Sustainability Chair James Ward and Co-Chair Donna Providenti hand-raking the leaves and winter debris at the Bird Homestead & Meeting House Conservancy on April 13, 2024.)](https://myrye.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PXL_20240413_135604381.MP_-769x1024.jpg)
![(PHOTO: CC/AC member Ryan Prime collecting garbage along the Blind Brook on the Bird Homestead & Meeting House Conservancy property on April 13, 2024.)](https://myrye.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PXL_20240413_142818880.MP_-769x1024.jpg)
![(PHOTO: CC/AC Chair Tracy Stora and Bird Homestead and Meeting House Conservancy Board President Aaron Griffiths helped organize and recruit over 27 volunteers to help in the Bird Homestead & Meeting House Conservancy cleanup on April 13, 2024.)](https://myrye.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/PXL_20240413_155248456.MP_-769x1024.jpg)