Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Parnership helps people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Their signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides, which this page will help you to get started with in your community.
The ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States and Canada. You can find out which ecoregion you live in simply by entering your zip code / postal code at http://pollinator.org/guides and get your free guide tailored to the pollinators in your region. You can find lists of plant names that will attract pollinators and help you build a beautiful pollinator habitat! Print these lists and bring them to your local native plant, garden center or nursery and then get a group together and get planting!
Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Parnership helps people protect pollinators to ensure healthy ecosystems and food security. The Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research. Their signature initiatives include the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week, and the Ecoregional Planting Guides, which this page will help you to get started with in your community.
The ecoregional planting guides, Selecting Plants for Pollinators, are tailored to specific areas of the United States and Canada. You can find out which ecoregion you live in simply by entering your zip code / postal code at http://pollinator.org/guides and get your free guide tailored to the pollinators in your region. You can find lists of plant names that will attract pollinators and help you build a beautiful pollinator habitat! Print these lists and bring them to your local native plant, garden center or nursery and then get a group together and get planting!
Planting For Pollinators Is More Important Than Ever
https://www.rareseeds.com/blog/post/planting-for-pollinators-is-more-important-than-ever
There will be no free plants of seeds at this month's Borderlands Produce on Wheels Without Waste event. I have COVID and don't want to share that! I look forward to seeing everyone next month!
How to Grow Lettuce
https://growinginthegarden.com/how-to-grow-lettuce-6-tips-for-growing-lettuce/
Saving lettuce seeds
https://www.homefortheharvest.com/how-to-save-lettuce-seeds/
How to Grow Spinach
https://growinginthegarden.com/how-to-grow-spinach-7-tips-for-growing-spinach/
Spinach information
https://8billiontrees.com/gardening/spinach-plant/
How to Grow and Care for Coreopsis
Coreopsis is a low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, long-blooming flower to fill a bed or line a border. Find out more in the link below.
Coreopsis was listed as one of the top 30 plants for bees here in the valley. https://gardenvarietylife.com/30-plants-for-arizona-bees/
https://www.thespruce.com/growing-and-using-coreopsis-in-the-flower-garden-1402839
How to Grow Cilantro
https://growinginthegarden.com/how-to-grow-cilantro-5-tips-for-growing-cilantro/
Bok Choy
https://growinginthegarden.com/arizona-vegetable-planting-guide-a-visual-guide-for-low-desert-vegetables/#bok
How to Grow Tomatoes in Arizona – 10 Tips for Growing Tomatoes
https://growinginthegarden.com/how-to-grow-tomatoes-in-arizona-10-tips-for-growing-tomatoes/
For kids: Life cycle of tomatoes
https://letstalkscience.ca/educational-resources/backgrounders/life-cycle-a-tomato-plant
30+ plants for Arizona Bees
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yHCvu5xSA1X_AgnFS4UG-LBWCqSHi-qne1M_QezW-7g/edit?usp=sharing
We will be giving out seeds for some of these at our upcoming event on Saturday, January 6th!
For those planning ahead, what to plant in February in the Phoenix area.
What to plant in January in the Phoenix area
What to plant in December