The BUG Project Field Day

Saturday, Aug. 10, 2024
11 a.m.-3 p.m.

MSU - Detroit Partnership for Learning and Innovation (DPFLI)
16745 Lamphere St.
Detroit, MI 48219, USA

Join us for a free afternoon of fun, learning, and community engagement at our first ever field day, all about pollinator management! Listen to invited guest speakers share knowledge on diverse pollinator topics, participate in fun activities, socialize with local urban farmers, and get resources for establishing your own pollinator habitat! Activities include a bumble bee petting zoo, planting a pollinator rain garden, creating wildflower seed bombs, and more. Lunch will be provided while supplies last, so please register today!

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Speakers: Stathis Pauls (Introduction and tour of MSU-Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning and Innovation), Stefanie Steele (Pollinator conservation and the Xerces Society), Jen Roedel (Bee communities of Detroit), Karma Thomas (Connecting pollinators to food security), Karma Thomas and Jen Roedel (Introduction to the Bee Urban Growers Project), Romondo Woods II (Finding opportunities for urban growers)

Featuring resource tables from: Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, Detroit Hives and its Bee City Committee, Keep Growing Detroit, Detroit Wildflower Nursery, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Detroit Butterfly Nursery, Photographer Joseph Ferraro, Michigan Food and Farming Systems (MIFFS)

Schedule: 11:00-3:00 PM

• 11:00-11:15: Welcome
• 11:15-11:30: Tour of the DPFLI
• 11:45-11:55: Introduction to The BUG project
• 11:55-12:05: Bee communities of Detroit with Jen Roedel
• 12:05-12:15: Connecting pollinators to food security with Karma Thomas
• 12:15-1:15: Pizza oven lunch
• 1:20-1:50: Pollinator conservation and the Xerces Society with Stefanie Steele
• 2:00-2:15: Finding opportunities for urban growers with Romondo Woods II
• 2:15-3:00: Pollinator rain garden planting