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Pollinator celebration with UMaUMaine Extension features experts, hands-on fun and Wyman’s food truck

Pollinator celebration with UMaUMaine Extension features experts, hands-on fun and Wyman’s food truck

The event will feature engaging, educational activities for all ages focused on the essential role of bees, butterflies and other pollinators in Maine’s ecosystems. Visitors can enjoy ongoing attractions including face painting, free samples of Wyman’s fruit and peanut butter poppers from their Bee Wild Mobile, sunflower planting, a bee petting zoo, avian activities with Maine Audubon, live and pinned insects, 3-D pollen models, a pollinator-friendly seed tape activity, and an observation hive. Timed activities include How to Build and Maintain a Bee Hotel with UMaine Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology Phil Fanning at 11 a.m.; Insect and Plant Tours with Jennifer Lund, Hillary Peterson and Gary Fish from the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry at 10:30 and noon; and Storytime with Cindy Seger from Old Town Public Library at 11 a.m.

Rogers Farm
10:00 AM - 01:00 PM on Sat, 31 May 2025
Rogers Farm
914 Bennoch Rd
Old Town, Maine
2079429396
katherine.garland@maine.edu