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Pollinator Festival 2023

National Pollinator week is right around the corner and we are Bee-yond excited! Pollinator week is held worldwide June 19th - June 25th, 2023.

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The Manitou Springs Pollinator Festival will allow our community to bee together and bee connected on an international level with other countries and communities actively supporting pollinator health and seeking ways to protect them. 

Pollinator party day 2023!!

We would like to thank our participating partners, stakeholders, and supporters of our 3rd Annual Pollinator Party Day who will bee having their own booths filled with awesome info, interactive projects or selling wares:

Jibwa Studios
Hell's Kitchen...1 out of 3 bites of food is a result of pollination!!  

Food to Power

Monarch Monitoring Project

Flying Pig Farm

Butterfly Pavilion

Fountain Creek Watershed and Greenway District

Fort Carson

CRANE

Tina Riesterer

D14

Ricks Nursery

Farmer Allen & Gold Mountain Gardens

Manitou Seed Library

Smokebrush Farm

Manitou Pollinators

Rocky Mountain Bee Supply


And a SPECIAL THANKS to MACH & Community Foundation for their generous grants making this possible. We are SO GRATEFUL!!

POLLINATOR PARTY DAY KEYNOTE SPEAKERS!

Alli Schuch

Executive Director- Fountain Creek Watershed & Greenway District

https://www.fountain-crk.org/

Amy Yarger

Horticultural Director- Butterfly Pavilion

https://butterflies.org/

Nancy Fortuin

Manitou Springs Mayor Pro Tem

Melody Daugherty

Executive Director- Manitou Pollinators

https://manitoupollinators.org/

Lyn Harwell-Ettinger

Manitou Springs Community Foundation Board Member & Bulletin Editor

Events

06/21/23

Take a class with David Woolley!

6-7 P.M.

513 Manitou Ave.

Event Details

06/21/23

Take a class with David Woolley!

Event is held at the MAC classroom


Join David Woolley from the Manitou Seed Library for a presentation over  pollinator's  in the Fountain Cr...

Event Details

6-7 P.M.

513 Manitou Ave.

06/25/23

HONEYPALOOZA HONEY TASTING CONTEST! Rocky Mountain Bee Supply

10-2 P.M.

Pollinator Party Day - Soda Springs Park

Event Details

06/25/23

HONEYPALOOZA HONEY TASTING CONTEST! Rocky Mountain Bee Supply

If you are a beekeeper please bring your pint o' honey to the 1st Honeypalooza honey tasting contest during Pollinator Party Day.   If not, ...

Event Details

10-2 P.M.

Pollinator Party Day - Soda Springs Park

06/25/23

Monarch Larva Monitoring Project Training Workshop

9 A.M - 2 P.M.

Keithley Rd, Manitou Springs

Event Details

06/25/23

Monarch Larva Monitoring Project Training Workshop

Event is free and held at the Flying Pig Farm.


REGISTER HERE:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monarch-larva-monitoring-project-mlmp-training-work...

Event Details

9 A.M - 2 P.M.

Keithley Rd, Manitou Springs

6/25/23

Smokebrush Farm Bee Tour

2 P.M.

302 El Paso Blvd, Red Crags, Manitou Springs

Event Details

6/25/23

Smokebrush Farm Bee Tour

REGISTER HERE:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe39nUr4SIVhhVNJPq1Qqw9nhd4H-L7Faun12h9MpDUKus15A/viewform


Learn more about the ins-an...

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2 P.M.

302 El Paso Blvd, Red Crags, Manitou Springs

Every Tuesday 6/13/23 - 7/25/23

Poetry & Pottery

12 P.M.

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2 P.M.

Soda Springs Park

Event Details

Every Tuesday 6/13/23 - 7/25/23

Poetry & Pottery

Poetry and Pottery will have pollinator projects going on in June, especially on June 20th.  We gather in Soda Spring Park every Tuesday fro...

Event Details

12 P.M.

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2 P.M.

Soda Springs Park

More Events

Awarded artwork by David Gonzales

We are thrilled to have artwork by David Gonzales be prizes for our Honeypalooza winners! David's work early on reflects his Native American and Hispanic Cultural Traditions & has now expanded to many styles & mediums. Through his recognizable work, he expresses his fascination with objects moving through space & time.

Find out more about david's work

Music by Tenderfoot Bluegrass Band!

https://tenderfootbluegrass.com/

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