Local youth can help celebrate the Town of Collingwood becoming recognized as a Bee City Canada community by adding native pollinator plants to their own gardens!
Starting today, packets of a variety of native seeds will be made available to youth via the Collingwood Public Library’s 2021 Spring Break Kits.
Each packet will come with planting instructions and images of the flowers.
A Bee City is part of a North American movement to support pollinator protection.
Pollinators, including bees, butterflies, beetles, flies and more, are important for supporting healthy environments and pollinating many of the fruits and vegetables that we eat. In addition to this, native plants, specifically, are host plants to specific bees and butterflies. Without their host plants being present, certain insect species would not be alive today.
A donation of $1,000 from Julie DiLorenzo will help to launch this year’s pollinator initiatives. The donation is going directly to our youth, inspiring them to learn about and plant native pollinator gardens! The seed packets will also be available at upcoming pollinator events this spring.
Other initiatives this year include the Town planting pollinator gardens along St. Marie Street (south of Eddie Bush Arena) and at the Town welcome signs, BIA planting pollinator gardens in a variety of locations, a native tree and plant sale, a rain barrel event, and educational opportunities through Pollinate Collingwood, Environment Network, Blue Mountain Watershed Trust, Collingwood Museum, and the Collingwood Public Library.
Collingwood is now one of 32 Bee City Canada communities in Ontario.
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