Invite pollinators to your neighborhood by planting a pollinator friendly habitat in your garden, farm, school, park or just about anywhere!
The Idea
Pollinator Partnership 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 Partnership 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!
Butterflies are hatching! Last count was 15!!
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DoorDash Event at OI November 12th
This season some Borderlands’ P.O.W.W.O.W. locations will be participating in DoorDash delivery. In order to qualify for this service you will need to pre-register with Borderlands so they can determine if you live within a 10 mile radius of the location. We know this service will be extremely helpful to those of you who do not have transportation, or are unable to leave the house for other reasons.
November 12th Odyssey International will have a DoorDash Only Event. Those who live within a 10-mile radius of the school can have 50 lbs. of produce delivered to their homes. Those living outside the 10-mile radius should list Sienna Hills Elementary School (2400 N Sienna Hills Pkwy, Buckeye, AZ 85396) as their address when you pre-register and pick up their produce there between 8-9am Nov 12th.
As part of this Borderlands DoorDash partnership, supporters will be able to make a $15 donation and receive up to 50 lbs. of rescued produce. We will be restricted in the size of the boxes we can provide for delivery, so please understand you will typically have a few less varieties than the people that come out and support, in-person at the particular location.
Please complete our DoorDash registration form to see if you qualify to have your order delivered to your home (or if you need to pick up your order at Sienna Hills).
After you register you will be added to Borderlands’ DoorDash mailing list. Each week, when we have a Borderlands' P.O.W.W.O.W. location taking place close to you, you will get an email notifying you of your eligibility to participate. At that point you will get a link through which you can make your $15 (+$1 for processing fee) donation, and you will be added to our list for deliveries through DoorDash that week.
Getting Ready for MAY's Free Event
https://growinginthegarden.com/arizona-garden-in-may/
Coreopsis
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/flowers/coreopsis/growing-coreopsis-flowers.htm
Marigolds
https://www.almanac.com/plant/marigolds
Canna Lily
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/bulbs/canna/canna-lily-care.htm
Chaste Tree
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/chaste-tree/chaste-tree-cultivation.htm
Okra
https://growinginthegarden.com/?s=okra
Roselle Hibiscus
https://growinginthegarden.com/?s=roselle+hibiscus
How to grow Red Salvia also called Scarlet Sage
https://www.thespruce.com/red-salvia-scarlet-sage-salvia-splendens-2132144
Press light-dependent seeds into surface of soil in early spring. Direct seed in the garden bed and tamp well, or start in pots and transplant out after last frost. Average germ time 6 days.
How to Create a Monarch Waystation
https://www.americanmeadows.com/blog/2016/06/17/how-to-create-a-monarch-waystation
I am planting 5 types of milkweed to give out as soon as they are ready.
Seeds we are giving away at the Ghana Seed Event