Bayer Celebrates National Pollinator Week

Kelly Marshall

To celebrate National Pollinator Week, Bayer Bee Care has granted funding to 58 projects that will focus on forage planting. Projects in more than 30 states and Washington D.C. and will recieve between $1,000 and $5,000 in hopes of meeting Feed a Bee‘s latest initiative of forage planting in every state by the end of 2018.

“It’s thrilling to see so much interest around the country in such a short amount of time,” said Dr. Becky Langer, project manager, Bayer North American Bee Care Program. “We’re more than halfway to accomplishing our goal after the first round of proposals with more than a year and a half left in the initiative. It’s rewarding to see organizations across the country come together with one common goal: providing quality nutrients for pollinators. We look forward to seeing all the creative project ideas yet to come!”

Kickoff for the projects began Saturday, June 17 in Washington D.C. and the first Family Garden Day of 2017. Round one of grant recipients include:

Auburn University, Alabama

IVM Partners, Arkansas

Social Advocates for Youth, California

McKeever Family, California

Auburn School Park Community Garden, California

Living Coast Discovery Center, California

Mystic Middle School, Connecticut

The Rotary Club of Cape Coral, Florida
Camp Viola, Georgia

Oglethorpe County Middle School, Georgia

Doc‘s Healing Hives and Honey Incorporation, Georgia

Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Idaho

Friends of Camas National Wildlife Refuge, Idaho

Blackburn College, Illinois

North Central College, Illinois

Wesselman Nature Society, Indiana

Sustainable Communities Network/Ballew 

Family Farms, LLC, Kentucky

Riverside Municipal Golf Course, Maine

Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, Maine

Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts

Alice Ferguson Foundation, Maryland

IVM Partners, Maryland

Macomb Community College Bee Club, Michigan

Bay Midland Pheasants Forever, Michigan

Shooting Star Native Seeds, Minnesota

Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center, Minnesota

Missouri Prairie Foundation, Missouri

Lakewood Hills Homeowner Association, Missouri

Hickory Hollow Farmstead, Missouri

Farmyard Education Foundation, New Jersey

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service/Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands, New York

Bethpage State Park, New York

SUNY Delhi, New York

Hurd Orchards, New York

Columbus Elementary School, New York

Jack Britt High School, North Carolina

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service/Mattamuskeet

National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina

Columbus County Beekeepers Association, North Carolina

United Prairie Foundation, North Dakota

Little Miami Conservancy, Ohio

The Ohio State University, Ohio

St. Benedict Catholic Church, Oklahoma

Equinox Agribusiness, LCC, Oregon

Loyalhanna Watershed Association, Inc., Pennsylvania

The Land Trust for Tennessee, Tennessee

IVM Partners, Inc., Tennessee

Borderlands Research Institute, Texas

City of New Braunfels PARD, Texas

Gideon Lincecum Chapter – Texas Master 

Naturalists, Texas

Utah State University Extension, Utah

Belmont Ridge Middle School, Virginia

Downriver Golf Course/City of Spokane, Washington

Washington Youth Garden/Friends of the National Arboretum, Washington, D.C.

The Outdoor Education Center of For Love of Children, West Virginia

Iowa County Recreation and Prairie

Restoration, Wisconsin

Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve, Wisconsin

Red Mountain Ranch, Wisconsin

Town/County of Menominee, Wisconsin