Love Your Watershed: Pollinators & Plants

Date:           Saturday, July 1
Time:          10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Place:         Illahe Vineyards (3275 Ballard Rd, Dallas)
Cost:          FREE (RSVP required)

Join us at Illahe Vineyards as we celebrate pollinators and plants! Native plants provide multi-functional benefits to the land by bolstering biodiversity and providing habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects. We’ll start by listening to OSU’s post-grad students Jen Hayes and Nicole Bell as they give an overview on bees and discuss what species you may find in your home garden, native plants’ role and how to support biodiversity in your own backyard!

We’ll also walk the vineyard grounds and hear from the owner of Illahe about their work to support pollinators. Jen and Nicole will help us catch bees! Guests will learn how to ID and distinguish species and better understand the relationship between the plants and pollinators.

Guests will leave with a free native seed packet for pollinators. There will be plenty of resources to take home. Illahe will be pouring wine after our walk, so please feel free to stick around and purchase a tasting, glass or share a bottle!
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This event is co-sponsored by Polk Soil and Water Conservation District and the Luckiamute Watershed Council. ​

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The Presenters:

Jen Hayes is a is a graduate student pursuing a PhD in Horticulture & Entomology. She fell in love with native bees as an undergraduate in the Ricketts Lab at the University of Vermont. Since her first exposure to bee research, she has had the opportunity work on pollinator studies in Vermont, Ecuador, North Dakota, and Oregon. She is exploring how human-developed landscapes, such as farms and gardens, can achieve dual goals of pollinator conservation and plant productivity.
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Nicole Bell is a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in Horticulture at Oregon State University. Nicole was first introduced to the world of pollinators as an undergraduate lab technician in the OSU Honeybee Lab and fell in love with native bees while completing an undergraduate thesis in the OSU Forest Animal Ecology Lab. She is interested in how gardens and urban greenspaces can provide both a refuge for wild bees and fulfill human needs.

​The Place:

Illahe Vineyards is an 80-acre wonderland for pollinators. The owners have worked with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) since the 90’s to provide pollinator habitat (with a custom seed mix) and establish native plants that were once a dominant part of Willamette Valley’s historical oak prairie landscape.

Grapes are self-pollinating, meaning they don’t require help from a bee or other pollinator to flower. However, having native plants integrated into the vineyard provides perfect habitat to support beneficial insects that control pests, provides food for birds and add a splash of color to the landscape!

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