Buying Bee-Safe Plants - Make a Commitment to Talk to Your Nursery!

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Join with Xerces Society in a nationwide effort to protect pollinators! We will be letting garden centers and nurseries know that we want plants free of pesticides that might harm pollinators. We need your voices!

Sign up for our next Nationwide Day of Action on Wednesday October 26, 2022! Did you know that fall is a slower time for nurseries and garden centers - and a good time to have these conversations?

By joining a Day of Action, you're making a commitment to go visit or call or write to your local garden center or nursery, to ask for plants free of pesticides that could hurt pollinators. We ask that you also use the other talking points and questions in the fact sheet Buying Bee-Safe Plants. If you can't make that date but still want to talk to your nursery, that's fine too!
Learn more about how to help by reviewing our blog at https://xerces.org/pesticides/bee-safe-nursery-plants.

Then download the Xerces Buying Bee-Safe Plants fact sheet (https://xerces.org/publications/fact-sheets/buying-bee-safe-plants) and the Xerces Offering Bee-Safe Plants fact sheet (https://xerces.org/publications/fact-sheets/offering-bee-safe-plants-guide-for-nurseries).

Don't forget to get your friends involved! And when you're done, please let us know how it went by logging your experience here!

Email *

Your Name *

Please enter your first name followed by your last name.

Do you plan to join a Day of Action? *

You can join the Day of Action, or go visit your nurseries on a time schedule that works for you.

Yes, I want to participate on October 26, 200

I cannot participate that day but will contact my nurseries/garden centers on a different day

Undecided but keep me in the loop

No thanks

Other:

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Names of the nurseries you plan to visit and their locations.

Please enter the name of the nursery followed by the city and state. For example: Happy Bee Farms, Sunnyside, MT. You may add several nurseries or garden centers.

For each nursery you contact, we ask that you drop off, email, or send (by regular mail) the Xerces fact sheet Offering Bee-Safe Plants: A Guide for Nurseries (https://xerces.org/publications/fact-sheets/offering-bee-safe-plants-guide-for-nurseries). To avoid shipping costs and delays, can you print this at home or email the link to your local nursery manager? *

Yes, I will print the fact sheet at home or email the link to the nursery.

I am working in coordination with a larger group and need packets to be sent

I'm not working with a larger group but can't print at home or email.

Did you attend the Xerces webinar "Buying Bee-Safe Plants: How You Can Help" or the Xerces webinar "Are Plants Sold as Pollinator-friendly also Pollinator-Safe? The Case of Milkweed and How to Help"? If not, you can see both at Xerces Youtube channel. Look under Xerces Webinars - Pesticides and Pollinators. *

Yes, I attended one of these webinars.

No, but I will view one or both webinars at Xerces' You-tube channel

Neither but I have reviewed both fact sheets and will use these in my communications with nurseries.

Other:

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