Pollinators Festival

Saturday, June 16, 2012
8am–2pm

Celebrate the Birds and the Bees during International Pollinator Week! Join us for a day filled with educational and celebratory events about pollinators. Featuring garden tours, honey tasting, hands-on workshops, arts and crafts, speakers, panel discussions and more!

Pollinator Week is an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. Pollinators positively affect all our lives—let’s SAVE them and CELEBRATE them!

Schedule

8am–1pm The Pavilions
Farmers’ Market
8am–1pm Festival Headquarters – The Commons
  • Urban Local Honey Tasting with Brian Hamlin
  • Observe the hive with the Toronto Beekeepers Cooperative
  • Hive-Share Program with Beekeeper Fred's Bees Educational
  • Neighborhood Pollinator Mapping Project
  • Community Art Exhibit
  • Seeds of Diversity and Toronto Region and Conservation Authority
9–10am Hands in the Bowl: Cooking with Honey
9:30–10am Evergreen Garden Market
Gardening For Pollinators Workshop
9:30–10am Young Welcome Centre
These Are the Pollinators in Your Neighborhood! Help contribute to a new and innovative map-making project where community members map out where the pollinators are living throughout the GTA
10–11am Evergreen Garden Market
Creating Butterfly Gardens Workshop with Toronto Region and Conservation Authority
10–11am Festival Headquarters
Meet The Bumble Bees Tour: Why we need them and what they do? with Sheila Colla
10am–1pm Chimney Court
Pollen Nation: Birds, Butterflies and Bees Face Painting, Seed Balls and more with FoodShare and TRCA
10:15–10:45am Festival Headquarters
Pollinators View of Evergreen Brick Works Tour with Dave Barr and Maria Kasstan
11–11:30am Quarry Terrace
The Movement of Bees, Dance Workshop
11–11:30am Festival Headquarters
Pollinator Photography Tour with Dave Barr
11–11:30am Young Welcome Centre
Who are the bumble bees and why are they important? with Sheila Colla
11am–noon Evergreen Garden Market
Organic Farming Improves Pollinator Habitat
Noon–1pm Evergreen Garden Market
Creating Pollinator Habitat Workshop
Noon–12:45pm Young Welcome Centre
Keeping the Bees: Why All Bees are at Risk and What you Can do to Help Them with Dr. Laurence Packer
1–2pm Young Welcome Centre
Beekeeping in Toronto: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned panel discussion moderated by Madelaine Lavin

 

Community Partners

FoodSharePollination CanadaToronto and Region Conservation Authority

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