Pollinator Week 2024

Happy National Pollinator Week!  June 17-23, 2024!

A Zebra Swallowtail butterfly visited our job site last week.  We have seen a few butterflies fluttering around this year, but not a lot. No Monarchs yet... There has been a good variety and a lot more bees though.  Bees and wasps have been visiting our flowers at home for a while now, too.  They are beautiful to watch, but also very important parts of our ecosystem!

Did you know that pollinators, like bees, butterflies, bats, birds, and more, are estimated to play a key role in one of every three bites of food we eat?  Everything from berries to melons, apples and tomatoes, pumpkins, alfalfa that dairy and beef cows eat, even coffee rely on pollinators for pollination.

The Power of Pollinators on YouTube

You can BEE a friend to pollinators this week and throughout the year, Pollinator Week is for everyone!

Here are some ways you can help:

1. Plant a pollinator-friendly garden using native flowers, providing water and avoiding pesticides.

We can Help You, Help Them!  Contact Us!

2. Support your local beekeepers and farmers by buying local honey, produce and meat.

Honey by Hand,

The Watershed Mitigation Farm at Cherry Glen Farm and

The Holton Homestead

3. Provide nesting habitat and materials for butterflies, native bees, bats and hummingbirds.

Buy a Bat House using this LINK

Do Butterfly Houses Work?    What about hummingbird boxes?

4. Support pollinator conservation actions in your hometown, like Plant.Grow.Fly, and get kids involved!

5. Tag your social media #PollinatorWeek and share with others about pollinators and how they can help.