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Join Border Free Bees for a Pollinator Picnic with Doors Open Richmond

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Pack a picnic and enjoy the 'buzz' in the park with an afternoon of free activities, Saturday, June 2.

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Building on the success of the first pollinator pasture installed within Bridgeport Industrial Park adjacent Bath Slough, the City of Richmond and ECU's Border Free Bees, have reengaged to build a second pollinator meadow within Terra Nova Rural Park.

And, as part of the 11th annual Doors Open Richmond, we'll be celebrating with an outdoor Pollinator Picnic on Saturday, June 2, (access the event off of River Road). Pack a picnic and enjoy the ‘buzz’ in the park, with an afternoon of free activities and entertainment that will include guided tours, demonstrations of our partner’s citizen science bee app, exhibitor booths and opportunities to learn about the pollinator meadow and native pollinators from experts and City of Richmond staff.

The planting design features a breadth of wildflowers and fescues designed to attract native pollinators while discouraging use by migrating snow geese. The event is intended to not only showcase the pollinator pasture project and its community partners, but more importantly, educate and inspire others to help rebuild the native pollinator population.

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Bor­der Free Bees is a long-term pub­lic art ini­tia­tive head­ed by Dr. Cameron Cartiere, Pro­fes­sor in the Fac­ul­ty of Cul­ture + Com­mu­ni­ty at Emi­ly Carr Uni­ver­si­ty of Art + Design and Nan­cy Holmes, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor in the Fac­ul­ty of Cre­ative and Crit­i­cal Stud­ies at The Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia, Okana­gan, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with numer­ous strate­gic part­ners. The initiative’s mis­sion is to raise aware­ness of the plight of wild pol­li­na­tors, empow­er com­mu­ni­ties to active­ly engage in solu­tions for habi­tat loss, and trans­form under-uti­lized urban sites into aes­thet­i­cal­ly pleas­ing and sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly viable pol­li­na­tor pas­tures.

Bor­der Free Bees con­sists of sev­er­al relat­ed projects in part­ner­ship with sci­en­tists, spe­cial­ists, com­mu­ni­ty groups, busi­ness­es, and munic­i­pal­i­ties. Their work is sup­port­ed by the Social Sci­ences and Human­i­ties Research Coun­cil of Cana­da.