Name: The Butterflyway Project: start your own pollinator garden!
Start: 2024-06-01T10:00:00-03:00
End: 2024-06-01T11:30:00-03:00
Location: Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

The Butterflyway Project: start your own pollinator garden!

Help us build the first school-based food forest in Nova Scotia / Mi’kma’ki! It will be a place for our students and community to gather, eat, learn and play.

Ne'ata'q Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Learn about the Butterflyway Project, native pollinator habitats, and get help starting your own in this FREE all-ages workshop. Free seeds!

Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose Academy

Learn, Play, Eat & Connect 2024

Our community is creating a food forest at Bluenose Academy in E'se'katik/Lunenburg, Nova Scotia!  Join our inclusive seasonal Learn & Work Parties: hands-on learning while you help raise the food forest. Find out more at www.foodforestatbluenose.com

The Butterflyway Project: start your won pollinator garden!Event Location: Ne'ata'q The Food Forest at Bluenose AcademyStorm date: Sun June 2Wild pollinators such as butterflies and bees are crucial to human survival. Climate change, land development and pesticide use threaten their survival, and therefore ours as well.<a href="https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/butterflyway/" title="https://davidsuzuki.org/take-action/act-locally/butterflyway/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Butterflyway Project </a>is a citizen-led movement growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies across Canada. Local Butterflyway Ranger Charlene MacDonald will share her knowledge about the program and tips on how you can get started creating your own pollinator habitat here on the South Shore. You will have an opportunity to take some seeds and plant some for the food forest.Since 2021, Charlene has teamed up with her granddaughter to distribute dozens of native plants and seed kits, resulting in over 60 plantings as part of the Lunenburg County Butterflyway. Charlene is a generous mentor, native seed collector and sharer. Free Swamp Milkweed seed packets available to all participants! Door prize: win an official Butterflyway Project Plant Pack (a garden plant pack of 5 species, a Butterflyway sign, some simple instructions/information and option to be added to the official DSF Butterflyway Project Map in 2024.Physical challenge level: easyFamily friendly: Yes. One or more volunteers will be on-site to lead primary-elementary aged children in outdoor active play. Please send us a note at least one week prior to the event with age(s) of child(ren) so our volunteers can prepare.Be prepared: This is a hands-on outdoor workshop. Dress for the weather: layers, outdoor/work clothes and gloves.Bring: your own drinking water/beverage.

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