In 2015, the National Gardening Association joined forces with 8 other organizations to create the National Pollinator Garden Network (NPGN), whose mission is to ask all gardeners to help restore critical pollinator populations by planting for pollinators.
The group has grown to over 40 organizations who are working together to get gardeners to raise their hands and be counted in the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge!
This year Pollinator Week will be June 19th through the 25th and we have some pretty cool things going on to promote the effort.
To the members who don't already grow plants for pollinators, we'll be encouraging you to add some of these plants to your garden.
For those who you already grow plants for pollinators (and that's probably most of us!) then we'll be asking you to register your pollinator garden with our map, and in return you will earn a shiny MPGC microbadge for your Garden.org profile! (You can see the badge on my profile, since I already registered my own garden). You don't have to give your street address; just the city and state is sufficient.
Our goal is to have a million gardens registered as pollinator friendly gardens, and we're already over 200,000. We might just reach the goal eventually!
And until we do, we're continuing to spread awareness of this high-impact activity we can all do.
If anybody would like to beta test the registration process and learn more, you can do so right now by visiting our Million Pollinator Garden Challenge page at
https://garden.org/pollinators...
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