Pollenation
" Celebrating the Billings Pollinator Festival "
2022 Tentative Schedule and Festival Speakers
Schedule will be updated as more informative becomes available
DAILY SCHEDULE
Week of June 20th
06/20
MONDAY
06/21
TUESDAY
06/22
WEDNESDAY
06/23
THURSDAY
06/24
FRIDAY
06/25
SATURDAY
06/26
SUNDAY
8:00 am
8:30 am
9:00 am
9:30 am
10.00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
BONUS EVENT ! Saturday June 18 2 P.M. at Canyon Creek Nursery. "Garden Party", join Ann McKean, Master Gardener, and the Canyon Creek crew as they highlight all the pollinator plants for your garden. They will answer questions you may have regarding perennials and more plus taste some of the natural plant-based foods available. 1730 48th Street West.
Tour DanWalt Gardens
Tour time: 10 am
Yellowstone Arboretum
Walk & Talk
Tour time: Noon-1:00
Library Story Time
Honeybees and Me
With Beekeeper Peggy
Time - 10 am
Library Meet & Greet American Honey Queen
Stories and Songs
Time - 10 am
Yellowstone Arboretum
Walk & Talk
Tour time: Noon-1:00
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Yellowstone Arboretum
Walk & Talk
Tour time: Noon-1:00
Yellowstone Arboretum
Walk & Talk
Tour time: Noon-1:00
Yellowstone Arboretum
Walk & Talk
Tour time: Noon-1:00
Canyon Creek Nursery
Abi Sayeed, MSU Extension
Pollinators and Conservation
Western Heritage Center-BLM
Rebecca Newton-Pollinators
and Public Lands
Library Summer Reading
Pollinators w/Leslie Nelson
2-3 pm
Montana Audubon Center
Tree Planting
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm
Montana Audubon Center
Marian Kirst "Montana Moths"
Time 5:00-6:00 pm
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Downtown & NPRC
Plant Walk
Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Zest Honey Tasting
Time: 4:00-6:00
110 N.29th Street,Billings
Wise Wonders
Sweet Science of Bees
Time: 2:00-4:00
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The Bee Movie
Wise Wonders
Watch for more info
Wild Birds Unlimited
James Bokovoy
"Birds as Pollinators"
Afternoon
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Billings Parks & Red
Nick Miller
"Pollinators & You-
Planting for Success"
10:00 am
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12-1:30 Lunch
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Bridger Plant Materials
Alison Mann
Pollinators for Gardens
11:00 am
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Montana State Entomologist
Alyssa Piccolomini
"Beekeeping in Montana"
10:30 am
Meet Lucy Winn
American Honey Queen
FESTIVAL SATURDAY GUEST SPEAKERS
"SPREAD THE LOVE"
James Bokovoy from Wild Birds Unlimited will talk on the importance of birds as pollinators and what you can do to nurture and protect them in your own backyard.
"POLLINATORS AND YOU-PLANTING FOR SUCCESS"
Meet Nick Miller of the Billings Parks and Recreation Department. He will discuss the many alternatives to increase your pollination production by choosing the right plants for the right locations.
See Bio...
"ATTRACT BEES TO YOUR GARDEN WITH NATIVE PLANTS"
Alison Mann is a Big Sky Watershed Corps member through the Montana Conservation Corps / Americorps serving at the Bridger Plant Materials Center. The Bridger Plant Materials Center studies and distributes
conservation crops for preservation of our natural resources.
"MOTHS AS POLLINATORS"
Marian Kirst of the Montana Moth project gives us a serious reminder that Moths are pollinators too !
See Bio...Program moved to Wednesday June 22, 5-6 pm at Montana Audubon Center
Please park in the visitor parking lot and walk up to the main building through unlocked doors.
Virtual Presentation
"BEEKEEPING IN MONTANA: promoting healthy colonies"
“Honey bees in Montana are working overtime,” says Alyssa Piccolomini, entomologist for the Montana Department of Agriculture. Around 90 percent of honey bees in the state are transported to the West Coast each winter for the largest pollination event in the world, the California almond bloom. There, they pollinate almond groves during California’s short blooming season, and then return to Montana where they recoup with cooler nights and long summer days while producing honey. “Imagine driving straight from Bozeman to California, without so much as a pit stop, and then getting out of the car and going straight to work for several months,” Piccolomini says.
See Bio...