Prepping for the 5th annual Plant a Pollinator Garden. This is my 4th time at a table. We changed parks this year since another area needed a pollinator garden and it was a great opportunity to provide event equity in the neighborhood. There are 11 parks in Mueller and it was good to work a new one. This time we were by a senior apartment complex and there is no playground at this park so we had a very different demographic that normally attends but excellent turnout!
I needed to update my table presentation. After the Care of Creation Fair 2025: An Earth Day Type Event I decided I needed new material to get more engagement and interest in my table and what I have to say. So maybe about 2 years I can get a good reaction to the setup before I need to change it up.
I decided to focus on composting since we can always increase what goes in the carts and I’d been having a lot of conversations where people were like, “I didn’t know!” I also wanted to include sustainable swaps since that’s important to me and The Plastic Detox had just come out on Netflix. It was a good thing I did because I had a lot of people stop by to ask about reducing plastic in their lives.
More about 2026’s Pollinator Day event:
In honor of Earth Day, participants can:
Plant native, pollinator friendly plants
Make seed balls to plant shade-tolerant wildflowers
Learn about wildlife from the Capital Area Master Naturalist
Learn about bird watching with Travis Audubon and purple martin experts
Assemble bee feeding stations
Get recycling and sustainability tips from a local resident expert (ME
)
Plant a take-home flower with Urban Dirt
Paint a stenciled bag and color butterfly-themed images
If you noticed the shirt change, good for you!
They event provided shirts to the booths which was cool. It’s rare to get a color event shirt let alone a red one so it was pretty exciting!
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Pollinator Day for Earth Day in Mueller (2025)
Image from 2023 where I apparently didn’t blog it.