3rd Annual Pollinator Fest!
Bringing Pollinators Home
Education
- Learn about the relationship between native plants and native pollinators
- Discover alternatives to chemical pesticides
- Learn how to attract pollinators to your garden
- Find ways to be a good pollinator steward and become part of the pollinator pathway
Entertainment
- Have your picture taken in a pollinator photo booth
- Kid’s table – activities and fun for children
- Entomologist Bob Gillespie will be back with his impressive insects
- Enjoy an art display featuring the winning entries for the Woodinville Garden Club Pollinator Art Contest
Also . . . food trucks!
Off the Rez will be serving made from scratch Native cuisine burgers and tacos.
The Cheese Pit will offer homemade sandwiches on fresh baked bread.
The Cheese Pit will offer homemade sandwiches on fresh baked bread.
Keynote Speaker - Sue Goetz
Sue is a garden designer, writer and speaker, and owner of the garden design business, Creative Gardener.
10:30 a.m. – Sue will present Garden Design for Bees, Butterflies and Other Good Things! Get tips on how to design a garden that not only feeds pollinators but provides habitat for them. Shelter, water, eco-friendly care and, of course, the plants! Get a list of the best plants and all you need to know to grow a healthy, sustainable, colorful garden that invites pollinators to stay.
1:30 p.m. – join Sue for a hands-on workshop, Plant by Number Gardens for Pollinators! Create your landing spot along a pollinator’s flight path. Get tips on how to color up your garden with designer combos for mini, pocket gardens, container gardens, and mixed landscape borders. Learn how to combine three (or more) pollinator attracting perennials, shrubs and annuals to create plant drawings. Then get pencils and paper and have fun designing – creating patterns with a matrix planting approach for your space.
Advice, Encouragement, Information
- Cascade Water Alliance
- Cascadia College/UWB Sustainable Practices
- City of Woodinville
- Coastal Community Bank
- Crown Bees
- Entomologist Bob Gillespie
- Finn Hill Neighborhood Association
- Friends of Tulatuwx
- Hooven Forest
- King County Master Gardeners
- King County Waterworks
- Oxbow Farm and Conservation Center
- Plant Amnesty
- Pollinator Pathway NW
- Save Soil
- Shoreline Historical Museum – Miyawaki Forest