Month: June 2017

Bees in Your Backyard: Olivia Carril Coming to Ohio in August!

Author and biologist Olivia Carril will travel to Ohio in August to teach four daylong native bee workshops. Each workshop includes hands-on bee identification using microscopes as well as field experiences with plant and bee experts.

Wednesday, August 2: University of Mount Union in Alliance

Thursday, August 3: Stratford Ecological Center in Delaware

Friday, August 4: The Dawes Arboretum in Newark 

Saturday, August 5: Mill Creek MetroParks Farm in Canfield

The cost is $65 per person, and includes lunch and handouts. Sessions run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Olivia Carril will also give a free lecture and book signing at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus on August 3rd at 7 p.m.

Click here for more information on the workshops

Sponsored by the The Dawes Arboretum, Franklin Park Conservatory, Mill Creek MetroParks, The Ohio State University Bee Lab, Stratford Ecological Center, and University of Mount Union.
Questions? Please e-mail Denise
We hope to see you and the bees later this summer!

Reminder: come help in the Stinner garden on campus, today from 10 – 12

The Stinner Garden — is on the OARDC campus adjacent to Thorne Hall and the Old Admin building (between #8 and #9 on the map). Once a month, a small group of volunteers join Denise Ellsworth and Jeni Filbrun to tend the garden and seek out pollinators. We meet at 10, tend and visit until 12, then anyone interested heads to Local Roots for food and fellowship.

All are sessions are the second Wednesday of the month from 10 to 12 except the June session, which is on Thursday, June 15th. We’ll focus on learning a new native bee ID each time we’re together ?

June 15, July 12, August 9 , September 13, October 11, and November 8 — garden to bed and out to lunch!

Hope you can join us sometime this summer!

Pollinators@Secrest: two upcoming workshops

Calling all Master Gardeners, OCVN’ers and others interested in learning more about pollinators!

Actual pollinators will vary 🙂

Come to Secrest Arboretum on Tuesday June 27th and/or Wednesday July 26th for two pollinator workshops, each 10AM to 2PM. Participants will spend time in the classroom learning about pollinator biology and practicing identification skills, then we’ll head outside to the gardens in search of pollinators.  Both sessions will include bee and plant information, but June’s session will focus on bee identification, and July’s will focus on plants for pollinators. You may register for both; there is likely to be some overlap…but lots of fun in the field and classroom on both days! 

Dates: Tuesday June 27th and/or Wednesday July 26th

Location: Secrest Arboretum, Wooster (Miller Pavilion)

Time: 10AM to 2PM

Cost: $10, payable at the door, but you MUST register here

Please bring your lunch. Dress comfortably and for the weather.

Questions? Please contact Denise Ellsworth at: ellsworth.2@osu.edu

Hope to see you later this summer in Wooster!

Smuckers Garden Day tomorrow (6/8)….can you help?

Hi all! A reminder that we’ll be meeting tomorrow, June 8th atThe Smuckers Store in Orrville with Amber Barnes of Pollinator Partnership, from 10 to 12, to tend this site. This garden is part of a multiple-year research project to study bee and butterfly visitation on native perennials. The garden is across the parking lot to the right as you pull in.

We’ll seek out bees and practice our ID skills, as well as tend the pollinator plot.

2017 dates are:

June 8,  July 13, August 10, September 14, October 12, and November 9

Remember to bring water, a hat and sunscreen, your lunch if you’re inclined, and a few hand tools.

No RSVP needed, and arrive when you can and stay as long as you can.

Please e-mail me with any questions: ellsworth.2@osu.edu or txt or call me: 330 495-1284

Thanks, and hope to see you tomorrow!!

~Denise