Are you interested in maintaining productive land while also conserving your natural resources? Then please join us for the Women4theLand Women’s Conservation Learning Circle on Thursday, October 11, at Camp George C. Cullom from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The Women’s Conservation Learning Circle is a woman only, peer-to-peer, informal discussion about conservation, individual land stewardship goals and information sharing. Female conservationists from the Xerces Society, Tippecanoe and Clinton County Soil and Water Conservation District and the USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service will facilitate the discussion and share resources.
The topic or theme for this year’s Learning Circle will focus on pollinator plants, their value and how to incorporate practices that will benefit pollinators on your land or in your backyard garden.
All of us are dependent on pollinators to help produce many of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts that we enjoy on a daily basis and that help to sustain us. Many insects and other animals pollinate flowers, including mason bees, bumblebees, flies, moths, butterflies and hummingbirds. They all serve an important function as pollinators. While visiting flowers to feed on pollen and nectar they move pollen from one flower to another, eventually helping the flower to produce seed or fruit. This process is essential to production agriculture and natural ecosystems that sustain us.
This FREE event is just for you!Morning refreshments, lunch and handouts will be provided. The day will include tours of the Camp Cullom prairie planting and a short bus trip to the home of Jim King. Jim, a former environmental engineer for Eli Lilly Company purchased 12 acres in rural Mulberry in 2011. In an effort to reduce maintenance while also improving habitat diversity they have planted 1400 trees, planted one acre of prairie grass and native wildflowers and converted 2.5 acres to alfalfa/grass. Transportation for the Tour will be provided.
Space is limited to 20 women landowners for this unique opportunity so please RSVP prior to October 5. Visit http://women4thelandpollinator2018.eventbrite.com?s=88485140 or call Leah Harden, Clinton County Soil and Water Conservation District at 765-659-1223 extension 3 or email your RSVP to [email protected].