Friends of Patuxent’s Pollinator Festival, The Return!
(The first one since the COVID closures.)

Saturday, September 24, 2022, 9 am to 1 pm

Patuxent Research Refuge North Tract, 230 Bald Eagle Drive, Laurel, MD 20724

Pollinator Festival 2022 will take place on Patuxent Research Refuge’s North Tract (230 Bald Eagle Drive; Laurel) at the Education Building and vicinity, on Saturday, September 24th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Festival is free and open to the public (donations also welcome). Come enjoy free native-plant and milkweed-seed giveaways, science and art activities, plant and insect identification walks and talks, educational presentations on gardening for pollinators; meet some of Maryland’s 450+ species of native bees; watch monarch butterfly-tagging and releases, and more! Learn and explore with us!

Exhibitors and fun, engaging educational activity stations for all ages will include: Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center; the University of Maryland’s Entomology Zoo; the Maryland Native Plant Society; the US Fish & Wildlife Service monarch butterfly tagging program; Master Gardeners of Anne Arundel County and Bowie Green; Laurel for Patuxent; the US Geological Survey’s Bee Lab; the Rachel Carson Council, Inc.; the Maryland Natural History Association; BUMBA; and the Friends of Patuxent (FOP). The FOP Wildlife Images Bookstore & Nature Shop traveling pop-up shop will also be present, as will some appropriate, invited vendors who will share a percentage of profits with the Friends. (For more on the Friends of Patuxent Research Refuge, Inc., which sponsors the Festival, please visit our website: https://friendsofpatuxent.org .)

As always, the mission of the Friends of Patuxent is to support the missions of the Patuxent Research Refuge and the Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC). We are a nonprofit, 501(c)3 group; the profits from income received by the Friends of Patuxent will benefit the Refuge and the EESC.

For more information: https://friendsofpatuxent.org/event-4886950