Join us at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm for Education Stations with the Pollinator Posse!
There will be activities like:
- Hands on Pollination with puppets and flower dissection
- Butterfly finger puppets and/or pollinator masks
- Mini-museum of pollinators with microscopes
- Seeds and planting of pollinator plants to take home
- Make native bee hotels (air bee-n-bees)!
Tuesday, July 12th at 4:00PM
1050 San Pablo Ave. Albany, CA (Entrances on both Jackson St. & San Pablo Ave.) You can park on San Pablo Avenue, Ohlone Avenue or the lot on Ohlone Avenue and Jackson Street. The Lot is a short walk to the Children's Garden area.
About:
The Pollinator Posse came together in Oakland, CA in 2013, fusing a community around the issue of pollinator survival in urban settings. Individuals and groups with separate distinguished achievements in the fields of entomology, horticulture, education, public works and volunteer engagement saw the challenge and opportunity of sustaining the indispensable work of pollinators by expanding habitat and awareness.
The UC Gill Tract Community Farm is a collaborative community project between the University of California Berkeley and the local community, focused on issues of food justice and urban farming. In 2018, farmers began collaborations with Sogorea Te' Land Trust, in support of processes of rematriation. In the winter of 2020, the Xerces Society identified the Gill Tract as the East Bay's largest overwintering site for the Western Monarch Butterfly, inspiring farmers to begin learning how to steward the site as endangered species' habitat. You can learn more at https://www.gilltractfarm.org/save-the-monarchs .