The Bee Project - Plant a Wild Seed Initiative

 

Getting Started

Start by connecting with nature in a learning way. Take a walk with family and friends and experience the landscape by looking for pollinators in sunny planted areas.

Native Plants

Next, determine what wildflowers are native in your area. Go to the educational resources link and click on wildflowers. There are several directories listed that will help you locate specific information.

Putting The Plan Into Action

Now is the time to determine the area in which you want to sow some native seeds and how many people you want to involve. Some groups you may want to approach:

Schools in your area (great learning opportunity)
Parenting Associations
Gardening Clubs
Community Centers
Municipalities responsible for right-of-ways
Farmers Association
Aviaries

(Customize your own kits. Download any of the material you need from Organic Principle's beekit site. The image downloads are designed to be used on labels and correspondence. )

Next steps:

One: Pick the date. Remember planting deadlines for fall is a couple of weeks before the first frost and the beginning of summer well after first frost. Seeds planted in fall often grow better.

Two: Try to find some sponsorship. This is an opportunity to connect to your retail community. Approach the local nursery or hardware store to make a donation of native seed. Ask your local supermarket to provide some drinking water and snacks for your planting party. Tell them their donation will be noted in the press release which will be submitted to the local paper. (Remember to send out the press release for your Plant A Wild Seed day at least three weeks before the event. See templates)

Three: Keep the lines of communication open so individual members of your team can keep the group posted on the progress of their assigned tasks. Email is an excellent tool to use.

Four: Once the seeds, location, date and transportation are all set and you find yourself out in the field with people of like-mind, stop for a moment. Know you and your team are doing something very important for the environment, for the pollinators who depend on a diverse native habitat for survival, and for all us peeps who hang out on this planet and share in her bounty.

Five: Let us know how it went. Send us your story and pictures and we'll post them on the site.

 

 

 

 

 

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